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If someone's take on 9/11 doesn't go back to at least the early 1980s, it's probably not worth taking too seriously. It didn't start on 9/11, that's just the date millions of people were forced into hearing about the messy and complex conflicts. A witness on ground zero doesn't become a 9/11 expert.
The 4th season of the podcast Blowback does an excellent job of covering the background, both within and beyond the borders of Pakistan and Afghanistan. I highly recommend it.
This is pretty much my experience when watching an episode of Adam Ruins Everything. Remember when we thought that show was actually right about stuff?
We really need a movement to debunk the debunkers
Sorry, what? When did we all collectively come to understand that Adam Ruins Everything is balderdash? What did I miss?
hbomberguy recently had a video that "ruins" Youtubers who have been very successful from educational videos while using blatant plagiarism. It's 4 hours long but it's very engaging and might be something you enjoy.
It can have half truths but it's really hard to be factual when trying to sell a show. Adam is a comedian and an entertainer so any information that can be snagged regardless of validity serves the objective.
It's typically really hard to keep people engaged when you are trying to give neuace and data that's not as conclusive as we want. Hell, I'm trying to be as objective as possible in this and it's boring me.
Still the video games episode was embarassingly wrong...
"They kept video games in the toy aisle!"
No.. no they did not
Part of the problem is trying to be authoritative with broad conclusions. You can have a documentary cover a story or a person's life while being thorough and entertaining, but things like an overall industry's practices are just too complicated to go over quickly. People are going to have lots of varying experiences with it, and just giving facts about it misses human elements that allow people to imagine being there. It needs to be a story, but just one story also can't apply to everyone.
My friend says it's fake or something because the other 2 planes don't have video evidence.