[ravingnutter]

Those scenes were censored from American TV.

Only after the initial video. Don't remember what station I was watching, had to be Fox or MSNBC on my satellite, but the cameras were just rolling live, no editing. I saw people start falling, all I could do was cry and keep screaming "OH MY GOD!" to hubby on the phone, who had called me to wake me up and tell me to turn on the TV. Those clips were never re-broadcast. Those clips still haunt me, I am crying as I am typing this. This has had a big impact on my emotional stability and my physical health. Since 09/11, I have developed high blood pressure spikes due to anxiety, am on meds now for it.

I am not sure that the American public could have handled it being replayed again and again, but then on the other hand, they may never understand the true horror of it all without having seen it. I pray for those who witnessed it from the streets of NYC, I can only imagine the hell they must be going through emotionally, my pain pales in comparison.

[Fred25]

Back in the ‘80s, when I was a TV reporter, and when I wanted to show some “graphic” video on TV, I always warned the audience before I showed it. I told them to “close your eyes or turn your head away from the screen if you don't want to see it”, and when the scenes were over, I told them it was over so they could look at the screen again. My audience liked that approach very much.

[csvset]

MSNBC showed a distraught woman who said, "They were jumping.. the bodies..."

She couldn't or wouldn't say anything beyond that. I'm sure she was in shock. Horrifying.