“Is it true?” is obsolete (Boorstin)
September 7th, 2006 | Published in Truth, Quotes, Culture, Technology, Photography
The complexity of new manufacturing processes, the new vagueness that can be designed into vivid images, the new uncertainty of relation between the image and the thing imaged (Is it an actual photograph?)—all these make the simple question, “Is it true?” as obsolete as the horse and buggy.
–Daniel Boorstin, The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America (1961), p. 214