Whispers

This is an interesting film. The makers couldn't have realized how appropriate it would still be 70 years after it was first released. The only difference is that these days they aren't so subtle about it. But I was struck by the scenes showing people pouring high school year books and other records to help with their smear campaign. In those days it was far more difficult to chase down those kinds of facts; it was impossible not think about how easy it is to gather information on large groups of people all at once. Not just the one at time that any one person could do back then; now they do thousands in the same amount of time. Actually those fact checkers would be thrilled with their job these days. In our time; people post their own embarrassing pictures and stories themselves for anyone to see. So the "Whispers" are still around and doing better than ever. I enjoyed this short; I'm guessing most will.