James Machado
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A surprising emotional response
Thank you for sharing this collection and analysis of the coverage of 9/11. To be honest, the most striking thing for me was the visceral response I had to the collection. The choice to deprioritize coverage of this attack on "non-significant anniver ... -
The tangle of helping students understand the world as it was.
Thank you for selecting this video to discuss. I see this as critically important work as an educator, as a media professional, and as an informed citizen. With the benefit of hindsight, we can better understand the precipitating events that led to 9/11. ... -
This is a critical perspective
I love that this submission illuminates a widely believed mythos....that the attacks of 9/11 exist in a vacuum where evil people attacked us "out of the blue" because they hate our freedom. As in most things, the nuance and detail is ignored whe ... -
Thanks.
Everything is relative. I feel like an imposter for having had the stroke of luck to see the collapse from midtown rather than from inside the WTC/WFC complex. I had an 8am shoot scheduled at the headquarters of CIBC in World Financial Center. That shoot ... -
misinformation and disinformation
After showing this to my students today, we discussed the concept of misinformation and disinformation. The incorrect report of multiple planes unaccounted for was an example of misinformation due to brevity and the unfolding catastrophe. It couldn't ...