Experiencing Tragedy at the 9/11 Museum
On the Media
WNYC Studios
4.6 • 9.1K Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2014
⏱️ 52 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | We actually place people inside of that moment of Revelation to remind people that at that moment, 9-11 wasn't possible until it happened. |
| 0:08.0 | Just because the World Trade Center site is now a museum does not mean it's the end of the story. |
| 0:14.0 | From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. I'm Brooke Gladstone. |
| 0:18.0 | And I'm Bob Garfield. The coverage of health and medical issues may actually be hazardous to your health. |
| 0:23.4 | We harm people when we consistently deliver inaccurate, imbalanced, incomplete coverage of new stuff. |
| 0:31.5 | We are whipping the worried well into a frenzy. |
| 0:35.3 | Plus, the U.S. State Department's naming and shaming of Chinese hackers doesn't seem to be having |
| 0:40.4 | the desired effect. |
| 0:42.0 | A very common statement I saw, at least on social media, was everybody's doing it. |
| 0:46.3 | It's just that the U.S. is a bigger thief complaining when his own stuff is stolen. |
| 0:51.5 | There's more coming up after this. |
| 1:01.1 | Thank you. stuff is stolen. There's more coming up after this. From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. |
| 1:05.4 | I'm Bob Garfield. |
| 1:06.4 | And I'm Brooke Gladstone. |
| 1:08.1 | If journalism is the first draft of history, museumification probably is the last. |
| 1:14.7 | So, O-TM producer Mira Sharma and I went down to mark that moment for 9-11 on the opening day of the museum in its name built on the footprint of the Twin Towers. |
| 1:26.3 | You're hearing one of two huge fountains, each one roughly the size of the Twin Towers. You're hearing one of two huge fountains, |
| 1:29.3 | each one roughly the size of a tower. |
| 1:32.7 | The water flows down from long straight walls |
| 1:35.4 | across a black square into a smaller square |
| 1:38.8 | with no visible bottom. |
| 1:41.7 | Surrounding the fountain is a black granite platform where the names of the dead are |
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