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To: an amused spectator
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.

11 posted on 09/13/2003 5:53:29 AM PDT by Greybird (... that's g-r-E-y, by the way, not how that idiot in Sacramento spells it. T'row dat bum out!)
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To: Greybird
Whatever.
12 posted on 09/13/2003 6:21:26 AM PDT by an amused spectator
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