Word: fakeness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...trump the competition. Magazine reporter Li Yang puts it beautifully: "I told my editors that if you want me to pluck a star from the sky, there are two ways: Either I fall off a skyscraper trying or I draw you a picture of a star. Thus is fake news born...
...Indian police say MSS staff renamed the children and fabricated histories for them, complete with photos of fake mothers supposedly offering them for adoption. False signatures were appended to documents giving vague reasons like "the social stigma of the child being born outside marriage" to justify the infant's surrender. Children were then shipped to wealthy countries, including Australia...
Eugene Hutz is drawing glances. he's in London's Brixton Market, amid the sensory barrage of exotic aromas, vibrant garb and competing bass lines, dressed in a purple jacket and trying on ladies' wigs. When he finds one he likes, he lets out a strange yowl, twirling the fake blonde locks around his head in celebration. But it's not Hutz's clothes or wig that have people staring. Locals in this bustling, ethnic stew of a neighborhood have seen it all before. No, people are looking at this lanky man with the lavish handlebar mustache because they recognize...
...thing out of the way first. Yes, The Hills is fake. Fake in the sense that producers and participants acknowledge reshooting scenes and doing multiple takes. Fake in the sense that MTV's beautiful "stars" are famous for little more than being on The Hills. And fake in that it's proof that a beautiful shot and a well-chosen sound track can imitate emotion in even the most banal scene...
...over." "I know." And--scene!) The Hills is like a music video, an art-directed distillation of emotion that would only be ruined by too many words. It's life, if you were young, lucky and beautiful and had your own cinematographer and sound-track curator. If this is fake, maybe reality is overrated...