Saturday, June 30, 2012
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011) Trailer HD - Tom Hanks Movie
Critics were sharply divided on this film. If you can watch it carefully, listen to the dialogue and share your reaction here with a comments post. Don't read any reviews before you watch but make up your own mind. It is very thought-provoking and well-acted.
Monday, June 25, 2012
Saturday, June 2, 2012
Facebook, Friendship, and the Search for Real Community
Cultural sociologist Felicia Wu Song delivered the 2012 Alan and Linda Beimfohr Lecture at Cornell on April 10, 2012. Song is an assistant professor at Louisiana State University, where she teaches courses in mass media, advertising and persuasion. She is the author of "Virtual Communities: Bowling Alone, Online Together" (2009), which examines the social and cultural effects of the Internet on community, identity and the public sphere.
9/11 - Why the conspiracy groups replay news reports in a selective and manipulative fashion
After the first plane crashed into WTC, it was now a major news story of what many people assumed was an accident. CNN ran the story as 'breaking news' and I was one of those watching live when the second plane crashed into the second twin tower.
Once the second plane crashed into the WTC, everyone knew it was a coordinated terrorist attack. CNN and the BBC covered the aftermath live on cable news tv all day and of course there were errors and mistakes during that awful day. As you can see on this report, there was some panic, reports of car bombs and fires and many people thought there were more bombs inside the Towers. It is safe to assume that there were small explosions of gas or electric utilities or even beams falling. What does an explosion sound like? Could it not be an explosion caused by the fire and aviation fuel, electric cables etc
Later, enterprising groups in the conspiracy movement replay those hasty media reports and mistakes to indicate that the media reported something which was true but later covered up. This is nonsense but dangerous nonsense. One of the major talking points is that WT7 fell down although it was not hit directly by a plane. However, large chunks of the Twin Towers fell on WT7 and here you can see that the fire department predicted it would collapse after several hours, which it truly did.
Once the second plane crashed into the WTC, everyone knew it was a coordinated terrorist attack. CNN and the BBC covered the aftermath live on cable news tv all day and of course there were errors and mistakes during that awful day. As you can see on this report, there was some panic, reports of car bombs and fires and many people thought there were more bombs inside the Towers. It is safe to assume that there were small explosions of gas or electric utilities or even beams falling. What does an explosion sound like? Could it not be an explosion caused by the fire and aviation fuel, electric cables etc
Later, enterprising groups in the conspiracy movement replay those hasty media reports and mistakes to indicate that the media reported something which was true but later covered up. This is nonsense but dangerous nonsense. One of the major talking points is that WT7 fell down although it was not hit directly by a plane. However, large chunks of the Twin Towers fell on WT7 and here you can see that the fire department predicted it would collapse after several hours, which it truly did.
Friday, June 1, 2012
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