MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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By Ian Bogost @ TheAtlantic.com, Jan. 21
A controversial video of Catholic students clashing with Native Americans appeared to tell a simple truth. A second video called that story into question. But neither shows what truly happened.
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New York Times published a similar piece yesterday here
Fuller Picture Emerges of Viral Video of Native American Man and Catholic Students
By Sarah Mervoish & Emily S. Rueb Jan. 20
And I note from doing a search for that on the Times' site that AP. and Reuters have also published "it's complicated" pieces, which I haven't bothered to read, because 2 are enough for me on this damn story:
3 Groups; Many Videos; Many Interpretations of DC Encounter
By The Associated Press, Jan. 21, 2019
Student in Trump Hat Denies Mocking Native American Activist in Videotaped Encounter
By Reuters, Jan. 21, 2019
More and more, we are prone to see what we want to believe and the ability to edit video and spin it helps that along....
by artappraiser on Mon, 01/21/2019 - 6:41pm
Yeah, we seem to have a lot of time on our hands as a country/world.
by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 01/22/2019 - 1:56am
by artappraiser on Mon, 01/21/2019 - 9:14pm