Half-baked Analyses

If you think you get the whole story from a video–even the complete, raw, unfiltered footage–you are worse off than uninformed. In this era of polarized, 20-second sound-byte analyses, towns have been burned to the ground by angry mobs incensed by what some pundit told them they saw. That said, there are sometimes valuable lessons we can learn, if we keep an open mind, and be mindful that what we see on the screen is rarely, if ever, the whole story.