On Sept. 20th, the New York Times reported the death of Hiroshi Yamauchi, retired president of Nintendo: responsible for the happiness of both old and young consumers. However, they made an interesting error.
Minutiae this may seem, but Super Mario Bros. 2 came out in 1988, putting enchanted kids that scrambled to play it on its release at older than 30 years. Undoubtedly, it was an adult and not a child that reported this error in the iconic brothers' careers. While the Mario Bros. are common knowledge and worth millions of dollars, the reputable New York Times didn't take them seriously enough to just lean over and ask the intern down the hall, or even do a basic two-second Google search in the age of information.
Pictured: Capt. Jack Sparrow, leading woman in Titanic.
This invisible issue is what this blog is talking about. These elements of entertainment and media mean so much to a vast population, enjoy international success and are heavyweights of the whopping 71% of the American economy devoted to consumer goods, and yet they aren't taken seriously enough for basic fact checking services.
They are elements of extreme cultural importance and worth, but very little afforded cultural value and legitimacy.
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