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CNN refused to show any footage of the attacks two years ago. While it has shown the images as recently as in a documentary on Sunday, "we felt that certain images have been seared in our consciousness and on a day like this, we do not need them to be replayed to tell the story," Robinson said.

MSNBC showed street-level video of the aftermath of the attacks, but avoided replaying images of the planes hitting the World Trade Center or the towers collapsing, Effron said.

Kudos to CNN for doing the 2 and a half hour thing, but I also feel that not showing the attacks is a deliberate suppression of information for the purpose of manipulating American public opinion. It's easier to crap all over Bush if you don't have to deal with the images from 9/11.

I watched a special showing people jumping from the twin towers a couple of days ago. It suddenly struck me - I wonder what a poll of the people who lost friends and family in New York, Pennsylvania, and the Pentagon would show? Do they think that Bush is doing a good job?

Things that make you go hmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

Kudos to CNN for doing the 2 and a half hour thing, but I also feel that not showing the attacks is a deliberate suppression of information for the purpose of manipulating American public opinion.

Give me a break. Please. If any recent images are eligible for being classified as not being "suppressed," they are the images from the destruction on Nine Eleven. They have been seared into news reports, documentaries, and countless books by now. I read recently of a child of a WTC victim who still will not watch television, nearly two years after the fact, for fear of footage being shown with bodies falling out of the sky.

In any event, these images didn't fit with coverage of a memorial ceremony, which is what this was.

Some people are incapable of acknowledging honor, even a smidgen of it, in their "enemies," when it's an opportunity to try to score rhetorical points.

It's easier to crap all over Bush if you don't have to deal with the images from 9/11.

Oh, that's all that's important here? Not "crapping" on Bush? Inserting such footage into a solumn remembrance becomes less barbaric if it's used to make a cheap political point?

I defy you to find someone on this continent with a TV set who has not "dealt with" these images by now. Of any political persuasion.

I'll say what I omitted earlier: Kudos to CNN for preserving the dignity of this occasion in its coverage.

A clarification for the non-Bushhaters out there in FR: I also feel that not showing the attacks for the past two years is a deliberate suppression of information for the purpose of manipulating American public opinion. It's easier for the Democrats and the media (but I repeat myself...) to crap all over Bush if they don't have to deal with the images from 9/11.