@bpkruse.bsky.social This whole thread is great (and I mean to brew some coffee and read the article too), but this in particular reminded me of part of our discussion.
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![Meme made of screenshots from the Lulu Garcia Navarro interviewing Zohran Mamdani
[Top: picture of mamdani, with text reading] *New York Times interviewing Zohran Mamdani*
[Middle: picture of Navarro and Mamdani with text reading] *Mamdani has a cough attack mid-interview* "I'm so sorry... It's just a bad cough."
[Navarro:] "Have you had it checked out?"
[Mamdani:] *recovering, sipping glass of water* "I have."
[Bottom: *Mamdani,] fighting for his life, [trying not to cough and choke,] staring directly at the camera, still smiling*
"That's why I believe in Medicare for all. Everyone can check it out."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ybkylffhwhn2an2ic2lxh76k/bafkreiglwthwjqdggjxwjdsf5w36bogvyxbzcnthzclp2pmtlb4vhahcou)
![“Second point, shooting it with almost exclusively 50-millimeter or 65-millimeter lenses, which is the most comparable to the human eye—and only shooting from the point of view of a human being that’s present in this space. There are no cameras on gurney wheels going in the hallway. There’s no cameras on the ceiling looking down from a God point of view. You are limited to the perspective of a participant. You can look away, but you can’t leave, and it becomes an endurance test for you to stay on your feet as long as we’re on our feet. Which [brings me to my] third point: real time. Real time has an aggregate sense of tension that you don’t get in any other form of storytelling. What happened before is happening now, and these two things are going to add up to the next thing. And if we throw more ingredients into this cooker and keep ratcheting it up, it’s going to pop.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:guthikarwozoldkzhueivkl6/bafkreihklvhtymho7wpemo5mj2f7xaiq6ulvfvcwnzo6hjstg3wixzgesy)
