This video of what one couple saw on September 11, 2006 puts the citizen journalism movement into perspective and demonstrates how disruptive social media can be to mainstream media. While our TVs have been busy these past few days with slick content commemorating, analysing and dramatising (as if it needs to be) the events in the United States, Bob and Bri have released their home video of what they saw 36 floors up from their apartment near the World Trade Centre. The video is amazing. Raw. Unnerving. Shocking. Compelling.
With so many outlets now available online for user generated content newspapers, TV networks and magazines are challenged to keep up. Traffic to sites such as YouTube, revver and others is proof that people enjoy unfiltered material.
Source: Digg.
We’ve put up a page to address frequently asked questions about the video:
http://wtcbpc.blogspot.com/2006/09/frequently-asked-questions.html
Best,
–Bob and Bri