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Subject: A Dose of 9/11, a little too much?
This week there are going to be a bunch of media specials comemerating the events of 9/11. Someone stated in another topiv that they were tired of the hype surounding 9/11. so the question is: Has the media gone too far with there whole 9/11 coverage?
BTW: I am not talking about breaking news such as the war on terrorism, but more survivor story's, blank congressman speaks at ground zero, what really happened on flight 93, ETC. I am personally getting tired of it, I do think it needs to be remembered, but they had a three month memorial, A sixth month memorial, you can't turn on a news magazine without hearing about someone that was effected some way on 9/11. Also, If one more person tells me they knew someone who new someone that worked in the world trade center I am going to SCREAM.
Subject: Re: A Dose of 9/11, a little too much?
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This week there are going to be a bunch of media specials comemerating the events of 9/11. Someone stated in another topiv that they were tired of the hype surounding 9/11. so the question is: Has the media gone too far with there whole 9/11 coverage?
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Truthfully in my opinion yes they are.
Subject: Re: A Dose of 9/11, a little too much?
I like all of the coverage that's being aired right now. I think 9-11 is a day that should never be forgotten. I appreciate all of the documentaries and the "one year later" stories about people who were there. There are many perspectives I had never heard about before.
Subject: Re: A Dose of 9/11, a little too much?
The day has past on by, now let's move on with our lives, shall we?
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Actually The only thing that I get really mad about are the authors who write books that start with titles like this "The TRUTH about ground zero", "What REALLY happned in ground zero" I think it's dumb especially if they wern't there so how would the know.
Subject: Re: A Dose of 9/11, a little too much?
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The day has past on by, now let's move on with our lives, shall we?
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I think that it's pretty petty of you to think that people should just move on with their lives. Some people lost the most important person in their lives that day. No, I didn't lose anyone but it kills me to think of the children who lost parents that day. I look at my kids and think how they would feel if they were growing up without me. How difficult this last year has been for the women and men who lost their spouses. Obviously you have never lost anyone close to you and haven't felt the pain that I'm sure those families are feeling. I bet they would love to get on with their lives...the ones that they had one year ago!
Subject: Re: A Dose of 9/11, a little too much?
It's been too damn much ever since it happened. For months and months on end, over in England, thousands of miles from where it happened, and most that it affected, a lot of what we've heard is nothing but September 11, and, with the forthcoming anniversary, I can only see it getting worse. Do people have no realisation that so many others suffered? Not just the n that died, but the friends, families etc that know them.
Subject: Re: A Dose of 9/11, a little too much?
I'm sick of hearing of 9-11.
I don't care if anyone thinks I'm cold or heartless, or whatever, but the coverage is just too much. Everything needs to be done in moderation, and this is just sick pandering to America. We mourned many, many times over 9-11. Enough with the mourning, and enough of the exploitation of the tragedy.
Subject: Re: A Dose of 9/11, a little too much?
*Jonman bites his tongue really hard* :-X
Subject: Re: A Dose of 9/11, a little too much?
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Some people lost the most important person in their lives that day. End Quote
*lots* of people lost the most important persion in their lives that day, but does it help them at all to have incessant TV coverage?
Half the stories last week were "9/11's coming up next week and here's what we're going to see". If I were grieving for a dead relative, the last thing I'd want to see is a bunch of ghouls going into every last irrelevant detail a dozen times over.
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... and enough of the exploitation of the tragedy.
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ISTM that's why I get so annoyed - rather like the case over here of two missing girls (who were dead while most of the story was running) is the exploitative reporting.
Though I do love the way Private Eye takes the piss out of the reporting:
http://www.private-eye.co.uk/gnome.htm
It's a shame they don't put more of the magazine on the website (but then I guess they'd lose sales)...
Phil
Subject: Re: A Dose of 9/11, a little too much?
I haven't heard/seen much coverage about it, but then again I never watch television. I do think it is something that needs to be remembered.
Subject: Re: A Dose of 9/11, a little too much?
Replying to Sagnastian's response: "The day has past on by, now let's move on with our lives, shall we?"
I'm not one to get all up in people's faces and pass judgement (especially those I don't know) but I feel compelled to do so now.
What happend last year was MONUMENTAL and to sum it up to "The day has past on by, now let's move on with our lives, shall we?" is absurd.
THAT day will NEVER past. That day is more then innocent people losing their lives to those as*hole terrorists and the lost lives of those who rescued. Lost lives are indeed tragic :'( but the even bigger picture is YOUR freedom. If the day comes when YOUR freedom is infringed upon I'll bet you won't be saying "let's just move on".
I'm gonna take a stab in the dark here and assume you are younger. The only reasoning I can fathom for your way of thinking would be due to immaturity. I know, I should learn to bite my toungue like Jonman. LOL
Subject: Re: A Dose of 9/11, a little too much?
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Replying to Sagnastian's response: "The day has past on by, now let's move on with our lives, shall we?"
I'm not one to get all up in people's faces and pass judgement (especially those I don't know) but I feel compelled to do so now.
What happend last year was MONUMENTAL and to sum it up to "The day has past on by, now let's move on with our lives, shall we?" is absurd.
THAT day will NEVER past. That day is more then innocent people losing their lives to those as*hole terrorists and the lost lives of those who rescued. Lost lives are indeed tragic :'( but the even bigger picture is YOUR freedom. If the day comes when YOUR freedom is infringed upon I'll bet you won't be saying "let's just move on".
I'm gonna take a stab in the dark here and assume you are younger. The only reasoning I can fathom for your way of thinking would be due to immaturity. I know, I should learn to bite my toungue like Jonman. LOL
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I don't know how old Sagnastian is, but I think you are misreading his comments. Me personally I'm no teenager, I'm 24 years old, and I share the basic feeling of "let's move on" . That has nothing to do with forgetting what happened and leaving America open for new attacks, it has everything to do with not dwelling on this tragedy and using it to sell commerical airspace inbetween constant CNN and FOX News coverage.
Subject: Re: A Dose of 9/11, a little too much?
Pearl Harbor is still memorialized after almost 70 years. It'll take at least that much for Americans to forget 9-11. And I believe the memory should be kept alive, but in private, solemn ceremonies. And no more celebrity tributes. We know how shallow some of these tributes can be. :(
Subject: Re: A Dose of 9/11, a little too much?
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*Jonman bites his tongue really hard* :-X
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Just don't swallow any lumps. ;)
Subject: Re: A Dose of 9/11, a little too much?
this day shouldn't be forgotten.It should be remembered 20 years from now.-howard- :)