cleve l. magazine wrote in his piece balloon boy predicted the entire trash fired world we're currently living in a great title for an article. that basically you could see it was it was as the start of an ongoing operating failure to react skeptically and proportionally to what turns up on our personal screens it was big moves before we have the phrase a literal object lesson the commandeering of by burroughs by unchecked influence i have to ask you do you right away do you remember where you were with when this story broke and do you agree with the premise that this was truly arbiter of things to come that this was a sign of what we deal with today on a day when there was like the gary c. the kennedy assassination but it was a series of hours and i and i was walking out into the street with cars honking and i was saying but i don't think he can actually float from fort collins to but here's my question for you chicken or the egg is it the media is it their fault did the media create this did we feed