The Tao of the Mindless Narrators.
Dec 26, 2022 15:06:37 GMT -5
Post by Radrook Admin on Dec 26, 2022 15:06:37 GMT -5
The Tao of the Mindless Narrators.
"The sharks know the terrain like the backs of their hands?"
"The disaster of an asteroid hitting Earth will not be as bad as just described because it won't hit us.
"The disaster of an asteroid hitting Earth will not be as bad as just described because it won't hit us.
Weird isn't it? The ridiculousness of those statements immediately jumps out at you. Yet, those are statements I encountered today in two separate videos. One was about Sharks vs. Tuna. The other about potential asteroid impacts.
To me this is nothing unusual. It seems that the narrators of such videos, whether they be related to history, science, or aesthetics, will simply read what has been ceremoniously provided either by accident or maliciously, in a sort of mindless mode that fails to detect absurdities.
. I first noticed this rather weird phenomenon years ago on the Spanish channel called Univision during the daily Evening news. It seemed as if the writers there were constantly having a ball with the news reporters by writing ridiculous things which the news reporters were reading without batting an eye.
During all those times, only once did I see a news-reporter suddenly realize the absurdity of what he had just read and stop to read it again. Not to correct it, mind you, but to read the absurdity again, albeit but slower and cautiously. Obviously he didn't want to cause waves on live TV. I'm sure that after the cameras were off, he either had a word with the writer, or else took the matter to management.
After that incident, the frequency of absurdities was reduced. But the real question is why must they occur in the first place? For example, why should a narrator who is reading a script which is attempting to inform us about astronomy, or geography, glibly convey a basic ignorance of such subjects? If indeed the narrator isn't 100% certain, then why not check? This way, the narrator will be far less prone to fall for any of that kind of prankish mischief which some writers are prone to.