Spiegelman

On page one, after the introduction, where Spiegelman uses the "waiting for the other shoe to drop" metaphor, there is a part in the middle that I didnt pay much attention to the first time I read the page. However, it caught my attention when I was looking back over it after class. I think the part about the towers, Dan Rather's head, and television can be connected to our discussion in class on representation. Witnessing an event first-hand is an incredibly different experience than witnessing it through the channels of television or other forms of media. Spiegelman mentions scale and how it influences perception and can distort reality through television. However, as Spiegelman suggests, scale in itself is not responsible for the difference between reality and how that reality is depicted on TV. Media can control how various things are represented through not only scale but airtime and selection of video clips, photographs, and soundbites. Logos may appear large while the towers seem small because they are represented that way.