The media and the rest of popular culture weren't recording people's reactions to 9/11; they were forcing made-up reactions down people's throats.
“Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows, Most barren with best using.”
“I was a student at Columbia College, actually, in the Architecture school. Paul would drive in from Queens, showing me these new songs. I can't remember us working it out.”