Censorship In The Falling Man By Tom Junod

In the article, “The Falling Man”, published in the September 2003 issue of Esquire magazine, American journalist Tom Junod shares his sentiments and outlook on the photo of Richard Drew’s “The Falling Man”. On the morning of September 11th, 2001, Richard Drew was able to capture in the moment a man falling from the Northern Tower, and captured in the moment a mystery, who was the man falling in the picture? Junod explores this mystery further and to shed light on Richard Drew’s infamous photo, Junod shows the audience some of the point of views from several different members of some of the victim’s family members and how each corresponding family reacts to the photo being presented to them. The impact that this brings is that it shows the victims’ family members to the public whether it be their husband, daughter, son, mother, etc. An individual should have the right to protect their loved one from humiliation if someone that they loved were to see the picture when they were at their lowest time. Throughout “The Falling Man” Junod shows the audience why censorship is

Censorship can also play a key part in keeping a country’s secrets a mystery and protecting them from attacks or hackers. As a phone call rings in Connecticut a man is trying to identify the man in the Falling Man picture and says to a woman,” Tell me what the photo looks like," she says. It's a famous picture, the man says—the famous picture of a man falling.” Censorship is able to protect the victims of an event or story and hide their identity from the media and from people they wouldn’t want to see them at their lowest. People have a right in order to be fully protected if they choose that they do not wish to be fully exposed if a situation were to happen where they were in a situation like the man in the Falling Man