9/11 Images

Same reason we don't show caskets coming home from Iraq.
self protection of our fragile little minds (or our kid's anyways).

 

"Any use of that image of that casket would require the permission of the family"
And the use of burning victims in the WTC is different? Unloading caskets from cargo planes don't show names, so I don't see how it's different. If it show the soldier's name, I agree it would be different.

" the use of caskets containing American soldiers would be as a propaganda tool"
"We should have been playing over and over again the attack on the WTC... made the public very aware with all the images possible what our enemies are willing and wanting to do" You just condemned a gruesome image as a PR/propaganda tool, then proposed using a different gruesome image as a PR/propaganda tool.

That is no different. You feel (understandably) that people dying in the WTC should be used as a PR tool. Some feel showing unmarked caskets coming home should be too.
I don't have a problem with either as news items/remebrance. I do have a problem with either used to sell something, esp for $$$.

 

I think there's a certain amount of trying to be respectful to those who lost loved ones in the towers, the Pentagon & in Shanksville. I remember reading a story about a teen girl from the Monmouth/Ocean County area (I'll be darned if I can remember what town) who lost her father on 9/11. If she wanted to watch TV, the only station she watched was the Food Network because it was the only station she could guarantee wouldn't show images of her father being killed.

I agree that we should remember the day & what happened. But is a graphic reminder more important than not tearing the scab off of those who are still grieving?

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(dbermanmd @ Sep 11 2007, 03:39 PM) [snapback]510786[/snapback]</div>

Your statement makes no sense at all.
A few weeks ago you were ridiculing Barrack Obama for wanting to pursue Osama Bin Laden.
9/11 HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH IRAQ.

 

same reason i avoid lifetime television when we have cable...

the fake scenarios in those cheesy feminine movies about a woman and her children being beaten by her husband? some days those can completely shut me down into a nonfunctional zombie.

and that situation never killed anyone close to me. and that movie is not real.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(dbermanmd @ Sep 11 2007, 03:06 PM) [snapback]510760[/snapback]</div>

Hell if you miss seeing it so much, just whip out your $20 bill.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(dbermanmd @ Sep 11 2007, 03:06 PM) [snapback]510760[/snapback]</div>

Hell if you miss seeing it so much, just whip out your $20 bill.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(dbermanmd @ Sep 12 2007, 09:01 AM) [snapback]511185[/snapback]</div>

And what about the families of those people who aren't identifiable? All the victims on the planes and in the buildings that we can't see? Do their families have no say in the matter?

Every time you show one of the planes slamming into the WTC, you're watching innocent people get killed all over again. Just because you can't see them, doesn't make it any less real. Or any less painful for their families. It's hard enough to get on with your life after a tragedy affects your family ... imagine how hard it is to try to move on when the images of your loved one being killed are shown over & over again.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(dbermanmd @ Sep 12 2007, 09:01 AM) [snapback]511185[/snapback]</div>

And what about the families of those people who aren't identifiable? All the victims on the planes and in the buildings that we can't see? Do their families have no say in the matter?

Every time you show one of the planes slamming into the WTC, you're watching innocent people get killed all over again. Just because you can't see them, doesn't make it any less real. Or any less painful for their families. It's hard enough to get on with your life after a tragedy affects your family ... imagine how hard it is to try to move on when the images of your loved one being killed are shown over & over again.

 

Thanks for at least acknowledging it as "PRO American propaganda".
I understand your POV and respect it. You are passionate about it and I don't want to deter that from you, as I do respect your passion for the good ole US.

It just seems you feel gruesome images are OK if helps push the US plan. If it calls the plan into question, than it is the work of "America Haters".

But many of us see the danger of only showing one side to every coin, and don't think our media should serve as strictly a propaganda tool. It is a dangerous path to go down.

 

Thanks for at least acknowledging it as "PRO American propaganda".
I understand your POV and respect it. You are passionate about it and I don't want to deter that from you, as I do respect your passion for the good ole US.

It just seems you feel gruesome images are OK if helps push the US plan. If it calls the plan into question, than it is the work of "America Haters".

But many of us see the danger of only showing one side to every coin, and don't think our media should serve as strictly a propaganda tool. It is a dangerous path to go down.

 

He knows that, Evan. He just likes his quick one line hit and run slander. Let's not get into that bickering again about "B hussein" being an "America hater" wanting to "invade Pakistan"

 

He knows that, Evan. He just likes his quick one line hit and run slander. Let's not get into that bickering again about "B hussein" being an "America hater" wanting to "invade Pakistan"