As everyone knows, NBC became the magnet of controversy when it decided to air an interview with Kris Jenner instead of a moment of silence dedicated to the 9/11 attacks.
Jenner is the mother of reality T.V. star Kim Kardashian. In just a few decades, more will probably remember who Kim Kardashian was than Osama Bin Laden or anyone directly associated with 9/11.
Television rarely captures events so raw, and the September 11th attacks were the exception to that rule. As ugly as those attacks were, the images of that day are incredibly endearing. But that was a time where reality television was in its infancy. Today, there are many more reality television shows to watch and many more cable channels to watch. Images do not endear as long, and if images do not endear as long, neither does history. Since reality is history in motion, we are moving into a pseudo-reality. Objectively, the world as it stands never begins and ends in seconds or minutes. But to the subjective mind, everything starts anew.
The 500-channel universe helped create that subjective mind.
You are so right about how it is the exception to actually witnessing something so raw that is live.
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