Nonsense Buried Underneath the Rubble
Many people would think a newspaper as reputable as The New York Times would put their articles through rigorous scrutiny before publishing. This is not the case in the article “The 9/11 Decade; Outdone by Reality” by Michiko Kakutani. After reading Kakutani's article, one is left with a sense of “where did ten minutes of my life go, and what the hell did I read?” Kakutani article is scatter brained throughout the whole article making it hard to follow what she trying to get across. Kakutani is quoted as saying, “Perhaps this is due to our Attention Deficit Disorder or A.D.D.” which leads you to believe that she is projecting her own A.D.D issues on the reader. Trying to understand this article is like trying to figure out whether the dress that was posted by Caitlin McNeil was blue and black or gold and white. Kakutani seem as though she’s trying to ramble until she hits a word count or finds the thesis of the article in question. An example of this would be her quotes of Don Delillo and Taylor Branch in which they talk about how much …show more content…
The fact is that many industry leader in this field do because of how success those piece of entertainment were at that time, also the name of that piece carries so much weight around. Moreover, the same could be said about fashion trends, for example many of fashion of the 1980s are coming back in style because the people designing those trend now were a live back then so they want to see them comeback. Is not George Santayana who said,” Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it.” which mean’s Kakutani is to blind to see that history does indeed repeat
Many people would think a newspaper as reputable as The New York Times would put their articles through rigorous scrutiny before publishing. This is not the case in the article “The 9/11 Decade; Outdone by Reality” by Michiko Kakutani. After reading Kakutani's article, one is left with a sense of “where did ten minutes of my life go, and what the hell did I read?” Kakutani article is scatter brained throughout the whole article making it hard to follow what she trying to get across. Kakutani is quoted as saying, “Perhaps this is due to our Attention Deficit Disorder or A.D.D.” which leads you to believe that she is projecting her own A.D.D issues on the reader. Trying to understand this article is like trying to figure out whether the dress that was posted by Caitlin McNeil was blue and black or gold and white. Kakutani seem as though she’s trying to ramble until she hits a word count or finds the thesis of the article in question. An example of this would be her quotes of Don Delillo and Taylor Branch in which they talk about how much …show more content…
The fact is that many industry leader in this field do because of how success those piece of entertainment were at that time, also the name of that piece carries so much weight around. Moreover, the same could be said about fashion trends, for example many of fashion of the 1980s are coming back in style because the people designing those trend now were a live back then so they want to see them comeback. Is not George Santayana who said,” Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it.” which mean’s Kakutani is to blind to see that history does indeed repeat