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You can get some idea of what its like to be in politics through watching C-SPAN or reading news accounts of high-profile political struggles or watching fictio
by maxander 11y ago
You can get some idea of what its like to be in politics through watching C-SPAN or reading news accounts of high-profile political struggles or watching fictional accounts like the West Wing. The life of actors is often meticulously charted out by the public consciousness just because many people have such tremendous interest in celebrity actors. I'm not saying that its only STEM fields to which this applies, but it certainly doesn't apply to everything.
- modfodder 11y agoYou really don't get a good idea about any of those professions through the media. Watching C-SPAN or even the West Wing only gives you a minute glimpse. Same with actors (most of the actors time on set is spent waiting or doing nothing). 90% of a director's job is done before the 1st day the camera's start rolling (and the majority of a director's career is spent emailing or meeting about prospective jobs, not actually on set directing actors).
- dalke 11y agoHow many 10 year olds do you think watch the West Wing or C-SPAN? And you do realize that most politics is local. You need to watch local access cable of town meetings, not C-SPAN, to get an idea of what most politics is like. Bartlet never walked in the local city parade, mingled at the 4th of July town pancake breakfast, nor had to listen to the local kook make a complaint. Watching West Wing for an idea of how politics works is like watching a documentary on Einstein. Even if completely accurate, it's still a very unusual example. Similarly, most actors are not celebrity actors. Wil Wheaton's blog, for example, doesn't match what little I've read from the tabloids, and Wheaton is one of the more well known actors.