VITAMEDIAS
Online and looking away on 9/11: Is this the future of news? While the mass media were exclusively focusing on The Anniversary, the readers and writers on Kuro5hin were ignoring it with an almost desperate intensity. What was going on here? [...]
The readers of Kuro5hin may just be an irascible, unrepresentative bunch, but it's clear that they simply want the news media to report the news, without "analysis" and without appeals to emotion. For many of them it seems the backlash is already here, and on at least one day when everyone was betting they couldn't, they looked away.