Mike Trout: Torn ACL (4/1/15)

[Erik]

I remember reading every word of the Finch thing and not knowing what to make of it, because I'd never heard of him but it wasn't obviously written as a fake and you couldn't go on the internet to try to verify stuff in 1985.

[Sour Masher]

I remember reading every word of the Finch thing and not knowing what to make of it, because I'd never heard of him but it wasn't obviously written as a fake and you couldn't go on the internet to try to verify stuff in 1985.

Yeah, I'm not sure a prank like that could occur today with a verification engine at our fingertips. I love stuff like this--using the media in subversive ways that disrupt the presumption of truthfulness we assume when consuming. The War of the Worlds bit was probably the most spectacular example of that.