ANALYSIS: Our information ecosystem is in trouble. Here’s how we can fix it. Part I

By Tessa Sproule SEPTEMBER 11, 2001. OUR WORLD WAS REELING. We were drawn to our TVs, showing horrible scenes from Ground Zero in New York. Expert ‘talking heads’ gasped, nodded and filled the 24 hour news channels; car radios provided updates from political leaders as the ‘War On Terror’ began to take shape (“I can hear you!” U.S. President George W. Bush shouted into a megaphone, to a crowd gathered on the pile. “The rest of the world hears you! And the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon!”); newspapers printed extra editions, spilling barrels...