morris, errol morris

EM is a teller of stories, but also a scientist practicing and studying the darker arts of telling stories.

for some reasons, this make his nytimes opinion piece on photoshop and news pics quite awesome.

some of it is of course hyperbole, some of it is just a bit wrong, but most of it is incredibly insightful and well done.

I was surprised to see the little green footballs blog referenced, which I found (on accident some months ago) and also found both well done and sadly a bit too agenda driven at times.

is it a sign of me getting older that I am becoming more irritated with agendas of any ilk? can you not just trust that we are smart enough to see your assumptions for what they are and get on with it?

Morris, actually, does a great job not irritating me. I see a slant of course, but it seems the liberties he takes are a sort of smart man's ecstatic truth rather than blunderbuss.