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September 11 Flashback
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On this day of remembrance and sorrow, it's easy to eat up the mainstream media's version of 9/11 -- for instance, witness the furor over ABC's "Path to 9/11" historical revisionism. But that's where the web comes in -- offering alternative, independent and various voices that don't pretend to present authoritative narratives about the tragedy, just myriad ones.
For example, documentary filmmaker Steven Rosenbaum is presenting his film 7 Days in September, which was released theatrically in 2002, on Google for free viewing until September 15. “I wanted to make sure the footage captured by 28 individual storytellers accurately matched their emotions on a moment-by-moment basis," Rosenbaum recently said. "Both are necessary to begin to comprehend the enormity of the tragic event,”
Rather than re-release the movie on DVD on the 5th anniversary, Rosenbaum reached out to Google Video. In addition to the film itself, Google is also hosting 1,500 video clips from Rosenbaum's footage free of charge, not to mention thousands of other films that deal with the events of 9/11. It's this multitude of media and memorials that just goes to show there is no single version of 9/11.
