Ichiro Suzuki retirement
This is a picture from the front page of the Saturday, March 23, 2019 Japan Times print newspaper of beloved baseball player Ichiro Suzuki, who announced his retirement at age 45 the day before, Friday, March 22, 2019. Suzuki's baseball career began in Japan in 1992 with the Orix Blue Wave in Kobe. Suzuki achieved super stardom when his career expanded to Major League Baseball in the United States - a move that would not have been possible without the pioneering example of pitcher Hideo Nomo who successfully struggled to move to the Major Leagues and was crucified as a traitor for his efforts by the Japanese media (until he was successful, then he was immediately eulogized as a hero).
This picture is my own, zooming in on the newspaper. The picture does not accompany the online story. The online story has several other, different, good photographs. This happens every day and I don't like it. The print newspaper and the online newspaper do not match. Often story titles are different. Sometimes the content is different. Errors in the print edition can easily be corrected online. That's good, right? Wrong. It demonstrates the manipulation of information. I almost want to say "the manipulation of reality," but the rebuttal is obviously that humans simply cannot manipulate reality, only the perception of it.
Which is real, or 'more' real, the print edition or the online edition? I know, they’re both real. But I’m old fashioned, so for me, the print edition is real. Or more real.
But I could be wrong.