9/11

[Steve Perry]

what did everyone think of the doc itself? i thought it was a mess. the
editing and the narration conspired to make it feel like anything but the
ultimate verite film it should have been; the whole thing strained at its
seams to be about heroism and not horror.

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From: "Bradford DeLong" <jbdelong at uclink.berkeley.edu>
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Subject: Re: 9/11


> >It's rather astounding to contemplate that something of the
scale of
> >9/11 is what it takes to get swear words on TV.
>
> Well, if we don't have special words that something on the
scale of
> 9/11 is what it takes to get them uttered on TV, our language
would
> have limited inadequate expressive power, wouldn't it?
>
>
> Brad DeLong

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Does that mean CBS should do a documentary with the soldiers and
airmen who went to Afghanistan upon return to see how many
causally use racist epithets in describing their enemy? Think
the US citizenry is now, post-innocence, mature enough to hear
other ugly words.

Ian