“We don’t know, this is one of the problems of technology- and that is that the pictures advance the facts.”

CBS Eyewitness News anchor reporting live on the September 11th terrorist attacks, commenting on the immediacy of modern media and its dangerous ability to broadcast and disseminate images before they can be analyzed and contextualized.

This is a chronological time-graph montage of the news reports during the 911 week around the world:

http://www.archive.org/details/911/day/20010911

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