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Monday, March 17, 2008 12:00 AM

How photos support your own "reality"

Why do 9/11 deniers see an alternative story in pictures of the attacks? Because we all interpret images according to our biases.
By Farhad Manjoo

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  • Monday, March 17, 2008 06:53 AM

    In other news: dog bites man!

    There's nothing terribly surprising in the phenomenon Mr. Manjoo describes; it shows up across the spectrum of human activity, from differing eyewitness descriptions of traffic accidents to blog posters convinced that only people on the other side engage in invective and distortion. It might be more interesting to examine WHY so many people are inclined to see missiles in 9/11 photographs. Might it have something to do with our government's addiction to secrecy and seeming inability to tell the truth?

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