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NSFW: After Fort Hood, another example of how ‘citizen journalists’ can’t handle the truth This Techcrunch piece makes some good points, but the video Paul Carr includes in the post makes all the same points with more elegance and fewer reasoning problems. It’s from This American Life. I also love this bit from the very end of the Techcrunch... - http://www.lifeisathrill.com/post...
NSFW: After Fort Hood, another example of how ‘citizen journalists’ can’t handle the truth
 
This Techcrunch piece makes some good points, but the video Paul Carr includes in the post makes all the same points with more elegance and fewer reasoning problems. It’s from This American Life.
 
I also love this bit from the very end of the Techcrunch piece.
 Instead he pointed his camera at her and recorded her suffering, moving in closer to her face for her agonising final seconds. For all of our talk of citizen journalism, and getting the truth out, the last thing that terrified girl saw before she closed her eyes for the final time was some guy pointing a cameraphone at her. “Look at me, looking at her, looking back at me.”
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