9/11 coverage...thoughts?

[Darth_vader]

Didn't pay any attention to it, myself. I'm so sick of hearing about it that I automatically switch channels at the first mention. (Even my newspapers yesterday and to-day went straight from the box outside into my recycle tub.)

Yes, it happened, people died, but for the Gods' sakes that was TEN YEARS AGO. It's long over. You don't keep hearing about Oklahoma City day in/day out, do you? Life goes on!

 

[searadiofreak]

I'm not saying this to be rude. But this is my personal opinion.

I've already lived through the horror of that day ONCE through television.

I didn't feel it was necessary to repeat it.

I think it is important to repeat it. You could argue it's been ten years, I would argue it has ONLY been ten years. These events happen rarely, and if we are not reminded of it, then it will be forgotten, which should not happen in our lifetimes.

 

[Bongwater]

I'm not saying this to be rude. But this is my personal opinion.

I've already lived through the horror of that day ONCE through television.

I didn't feel it was necessary to repeat it.

I think it is important to repeat it. You could argue it's been ten years, I would argue it has ONLY been ten years. These events happen rarely, and if we are not reminded of it, then it will be forgotten, which should not happen in our lifetimes.

Well, it also works the other way. If you remind people too much, you run the risk of desensitizing people. Then tasteless jokes are made, etc.

For me personally, 9/11/01 was just like yesterday. I still remember it all so vividly after all these years.

I don't need reminding from television. Because I am reminded of September 11, 2001 every time I board a plane or cross the border. I am reminded of September 11, 2001 when I watch all these endless wars STILL going on. I am reminded of September 11, 2001 when I get called for jury duty and have to go through all the county courthouse screening I never had to endure prior to that day. I am reminded of September 11, 2001 when I see a Muslim (or Sikh) man or woman being harassed for NO reason. I am reminded of September 11, 2001 when I have to drive my friend, a veteran of the Iraq war who lost both legs to an IED in Tikrit, to his doctor.

There can be NOTHING on television that can remind me of September 11, 2001 greater than these.



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[borderblaster]

Television was simply not going to just ignore the 10th anniversary of these events nor should they.

 

[bpatrick]

My dad and I were talking about coverage of the 9/11 anniversary
the other day, and he also doesn't understand why nothing is ever
said about the Oklahoma City bombing.

In my local paper this morning a letter writer said it was time to stop
dwelling on the bad days: Dec. 7, 1941; Nov. 22, 1963; and Sept. 11,
2001. But maybe to keep those dates in mind will keep the country on
its toes; we're talking about attacks from the Japanese, from Muslim
terrorists, and--in the case of the JFK assassination--we don't know
for certain--Cuba, the Mafia, the CIA, there are all kinds of theories.

But as the World War II generation is gradually dying off, less and less
is said each year about Pearl Harbor. This year is the 70th anniversary
of the attack; I wonder if, in 2071, people will still talk about 9/11/01,
since so many of us who remember that day will no longer be around, and
who knows what may happen between now and then?

I do expect some sort of extensive coverage of the 50th anniversary of
Dallas on Nov. 22, 2013.

 

[azumanga]

My dad and I were talking about coverage of the 9/11 anniversary
the other day, and he also doesn't understand why nothing is ever
said about the Oklahoma City bombing.

In my opinion, the less said about it, the more harm it would do to American society -- there are some today who say that terrorism is used exclusively by Muslims and foreigners, though they've already forgotten that it was a white American Christian who committed the attacks in OKC in 1995.

 

[Robnoxious]

In my opinion, the less said about it, the more harm it would do to American society -- there are some today who say that terrorism is used exclusively by Muslims and foreigners, though they've already forgotten that it was a white American Christian who committed the attacks in OKC in 1995.

Uppity domestic disenfranchised white psychopaths doesn't get the eyeballs like it used to.
The "news" needs a defined enemy to chest thump their jingoism toward.

Much like Dracula, journalism has had a hard time viewing their own reflection in the mirror.

 

[Tom Wells]

Do New Yorkers or anyone else remember the day in the early 1920s when "socialists" detonated a bomb on
Wall St? That was terrorism, but we hadn't coined the word yet.

Remember D-Day?

Remember the Maine? Remember the Alamo?

Remember Pearl Harbor?

Remember "Armistice Day"?

When I worked for a Japanese company, I thought many times about taking my Dec 7ths as a vacation or
personal day, but decided it was too obviously mean-spirited.

We need to remember, but also need to get on with life.

 

[ixnay]

I hope everyone who was born on the eleventh day of September had a good birthday yesterday in spite of the constant reminders of their birth date and its other meaning according to news broadcasters and/or their bosses.

I hope a coworker of mine enjoyed his last Sunday. Don't know about his other acquaintances, but I refrained from asking him how it went, not wanting to (re)open any wounds that may come with having a 9/11 birthday.

ixnay
(possessor of an 8/27 birthday, same as POTUS 36, fwtw, but that's another thread)

 

[1st of 5]

Why was the 10th year anniversary so special and overhyped? What was done to commemorate the event LAST year or the year before? What will be done NEXT year? Why remember this tragic event and not all of the others? Just because its New York City? False manufactured sincerity, artificial tears, suddenly rediscovered ultra patriotism and crooked incompetent politicians shoving their mugs into cameras.

 

[ixnay]

Do New Yorkers or anyone else remember the day in the early 1920s when "socialists" detonated a bomb on
Wall St? That was terrorism, but we hadn't coined the word yet.

Remember D-Day?

My stepfather does. He graduated from HS that day. And June 6 took on more personal significance for him when, exactly 36 years after D-Day, he got married (again - this time to my mother).

Remember the Maine? Remember the Alamo?

Remember Pearl Harbor?

Remember "Armistice Day"?

When I worked for a Japanese company, I thought many times about taking my Dec 7ths as a vacation or
personal day, but decided it was too obviously mean-spirited.

We need to remember, but also need to get on with life.

I agree, Tom.

ixnay

 

[WMC2006]

I didn't watch anything. The one thing I would have liked to see was coverage ABC, NBC or CBS from that day. Fox News did do that but it was too late by the time I found out.

MSNBC replayed the Today show from that day when Matt Lauer, Katie Couric and Al Roker were live with the already-struck 1st tower and then the 2nd plane hit.

I watched the various related shows on the History channel off and on all day long.

On a personal note, I was working parttime for the US Postal Service (in central Massachusetts) as a mail carrier back in 2001 although I was enjoying a long weekend on Cape Cod that particular day. Once I got back to work, lots of safety meetings, etc.

 

[searadiofreak]

Why was the 10th year anniversary so special and overhyped? What was done to commemorate the event LAST year or the year before? What will be done NEXT year? Why remember this tragic event and not all of the others? Just because its New York City? False manufactured sincerity, artificial tears, suddenly rediscovered ultra patriotism and crooked incompetent politicians shoving their mugs into cameras.

I hear you, but our media, and even before our modern media, 10-year marks are important, as are 25 and 50, just like weddings. This isn't new. And it won't change.

 

[firepoint525]

I don't need reminding from television. Because I am reminded of September 11, 2001 every time I board a plane or cross the border. I am reminded of September 11, 2001 when I watch all these endless wars STILL going on. I am reminded of September 11, 2001 when I get called for jury duty and have to go through all the county courthouse screening I never had to endure prior to that day. I am reminded of September 11, 2001 when I see a Muslim (or Sikh) man or woman being harassed for NO reason. I am reminded of September 11, 2001 when I have to drive my friend, a veteran of the Iraq war who lost both legs to an IED in Tikrit, to his doctor.

Here in Nashville, we didn't need the events of September 11th to increase airport security. We had increased airport security following the explosion of TWA Flight 800 back in 1996.