Opinion: In today’s pages...
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David Klinghoffer reminds readers that the ‘invisible world’ of spirits and supernatural phenomena reamins very real to many Americans and bucks the trend toward ‘a pallid rationalism.’
‘It may be that such pallidness helps explain why Americans turn to florid paranormal beliefs, as opposed to traditional supernatural ideas. Indeed, U.S. polling data from Gallup, reported by Baylor University researchers, shows that belief in the occult is more common among non- or infrequent churchgoers or those belonging to a liberal Protestant denomination than it is among frequent churchgoers and conservative evangelicals.’
Editorial writer Jon Healey finds himself in the middle of the Chargers-Raiders game, and perhaps the next phase of entertainment and communications as well, thanks to 3ality Digital of Burbank, RealD of Beverly Hills, the National Football League and a pair of polarized glasses. 3-D didn’t make the game a better matchup, but it made it compelling.
Rather than popping images off the screen and into viewers’ laps, the 3ality Digital crew used the technology mainly to push the action deeper into the screen. The result was more clarity, more ability to pick out details in crowded scenes and to follow individual players through clumps of bodies.
But Healey wonders whether the experience will be enough to get the public to pay more for the experience if, in the end (for example), the Chargers are still the Chargers and can’t perform well on the field.
The editorial board also urges the Screen Actors’ Guild and Hollywood Studios to keep bargaining, and it takes a look at Mexico’s deadly drug war.
The Humane Society chief economist Jennifer Fearing warns against Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s plan to balance the state budget in part on a tax on veterinary services, and Times columnist Gregory Rodriguez calls on the public to not fixate on video images of terrorism. lest the perpetrators gain even more from their violence.
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