YOU'LL SEE THIS ONCE (9/11 Coverage)

New York Post ^ | 8/23/02 | MICHAEL STARR

[kattracks]

Fox News says it will show this awful video only one time during anniversary coverage, and most networks are showing similar restraint.

August 23, 2002 -- They're the most horrible and infamous images of Sept. 11 - and you'll barely be seeing them on TV on the one-year anniversary.

[doglot]

I wonder if people really don't need to see this footage just so what happened isn't easily forgotten.

[For_God_and_Country]

My feelings exactly, the more you show it the better America will be for it...

[SkyPilot]

Memo to Big Networks:

The Internet has 4 aces and you hold 2 pair. Those images will not be forgotten.

Deal with it.

[KneelBeforeZod]

'member the first time you saw Joe Thiessmans leg go SNAP! ?

after the 300th time is wasn't so disturbing.

It needs to be shown more than once, but certainly not so often that everyone becomes jaded.

One rich guys leg breaking is NOT the same as 9/11...but too many already don't care...

[sheik yerbouty]

Does the lamestream press think we are children?

[chiefqc]

The network ex's are the same ex's who make decisions for shows like: Phil Don-a-Pu

Willie, The Pervert, Klinton

What do you expect, something that makes sense?

[WaterDragon]

Information managers. That is what they all are really. Not reporters, not news providers. Managers (little bureaucrats). Censorship. Propaganda. Managing images and words with the intention of manipulating our emotions -- for our own good, naturally.

They put an American-hater like Peter Jennings on every night. But the images that have changed this nation will be shown once, on one day.

[WaterDragon]

I do hope there are a few threads going at FR on the eleventh, showing every photo taken that day.

[OXENinFLA]

Lets hope there are more sites like this. Also the Smithstoian may get involved the set up an historical libary.

http://tvnews1.televisionarchive.org/prog

[TigersEye]

I wonder if people really don't need to see this footage just so what happened isn't easily forgotten.

They do but the Corporate Media 'news' outlets are trying to undercut the Presidents War on Terrorism. Showing images of 9/11 would stiffen too many spines and throw too much support to G. Bush and his plans to deal with Saddass and his ilk.

The main thing right now, for the liberal press, are the upcoming elections. Support for Bush translates into support for Republicans at the polls. Better another terror strike than that in the liberal 'mind'.

[Lucky2]

Your are absolutly correct. Bush's war on terriorism is too "conservative" for the liberal mindset!! The corporate news hounds would much rather let their women wear burkas than support a conservative! They are all traitors to this country!

[Behind Liberal Lines]

They don't want to show the footage because it undercuts their touchy feely BS message that Islam is a religion of peace and we are somehow responsible for what happened that day.

[Steve0113]

It needs to be shown more than once, but certainly not so often that everyone becomes jaded.

Agreed -- that is a distinct possibility.

[Fishrrman]

I read an AP newspaper article about this yesterday. There are some images (such as people jumping from the Twin Towers and news footage of bodies laying in the streets around the Towers) that the cable and commercial networks claim they will never show to the American people, on the grounds that they are too "disturbing". Yet this same footage was shown openly on European television.

Surely these images continue to exist in archives _somewhere_. I would like to see an independent (i.e., non-news) effort to obtain and collect this "forbidden footage", perhaps compiling it into one or more videos that could be privately purchased through the Internet.

If this happens, before long the networks will no longer be able to "keep these images in the can". And they may decide that the American people finally should be shown what really occurred on that awful day.

Sometimes the "raw truth" hurts terribly. But it is essential that Americans -- in order to come to the realization of the power of the enemy we face -- see the impact of September 11th with all its horror.

Will we have to wait until a nuclear device explodes in Manhattan before we face that reality?

Cheers!
- John

[MissAmericanPie]

The unsightly patriotism that sprang up after 9-11 was a much more horrible event to our commie news media than the actual destruction of the WTC and Pentagon itself. God forbid that they should be responsible for renewing those pro-American emotions by showing the destruction again.

[DM1]

These images need to be seen again to strengthen resolve so that people will not forget. Unfortunately too many people have forgotten and we have begun the slide down the path of liberalism once again.

[sphinx]

You have nailed it.

[TADSLOS]

It needs to be shown every day during Ramadan.

[man from mars]

I feel they should show it every day! Least we forget.