On television, the news is presented by someone who acts and appears as if they know something. However, on the street you can see that the telejournalist is standing on a milk crate surrounded by stuff held together with duct tape. And that's how things felt in New York after September 11th. I took this photo on the 17th, which was the first day that you could get from Brooklyn to lower Manhattan. For days all of NYC South of 14th street had been evacuated, imagine! And then Canal Street. September 17th was the first day for gawkers and shutterbugs like me. I didn't hear what this particular man was saying, but he could have been talking about the 5000 people buried in all that rubble behind him, or possibly how the EPA had declared the air to be safe for rescue workers. Both were accepted as facts and were wrong. I think a fitting way to remember 911 this year is to try to understand how the media constructs reality and perception. There are the facts, and then there are the tentative facts presented as facts, and then there are the instant facts, and then finally there are the facts that are forgotten or ignored. The media plays a roll in all of them.