December 4, 2006

Photographer Lyle Owerko, back from Shanghai, sent along this presumably current graphic from a Chinese-language ad campaign for an MP3 player, which incorporates an image of the fractured outer shell of the World Trade Center. He pulled this item off an industry blog. (Owerko, as described in Watching the World Change, photographed horrific scenes on September 11 while standing directly under the south tower.)

We tend to think that much of the the world understands what America went through on September 11. In truth, global empathy and compassion are much-overrated commodities.