Posted on 01/11/2002 6:34:31 PM PST by kattracks
What about CBS? Dan Rather's face could be digitally re-mastered to allow for more blacks on CBS. Dan would look great as a black. Why not?
Too many white faces on the pages of most newspapers? Add some tint, and turn them black. Politically correct balance. What could be better? Who would object?
And for the history books? The folks who flew planes into the WTC shouldn't be represented as only middle easterners. How racist. Throw in some Irish, Blacks, and Germans for this history books. Yeah, love is hate.
Shut up already and do your job.
Like your idea for making TV more PC. Dan Rather in digitally enhanced 'black' is a great idea!
What a clever and easy way to meet diversity requirements. . .after all, it's not reality that matters; only perceptions. . .
Wonder what Dan might think of this innovative approach to 'balance'. . .
ROTFL!
False.
That story mentions nothing about the race change. Newsmax deserves all the credit in the world for breaking this story. They've turned out to be the best alternative news site for NY and NYC since 9/11.
Next stop, the Iwo Jima flag raising memorial? (Ira Hayes, one of the flag raisers (Iwo Jima) was an American Indian)
Here is the entire article, straight off their web site.
'Flag-Raising' Statue Unveiled / Model inspired by Sept. 11 photo PUBLICATION: Newsday BY: Joshua Robin. STAFF WRITER EDITION: QUEENS SECTION: News DATE: 12-22-2001 A06A clay sculpture depicting three firefighters raising the flag at Ground Zero on Sept. 11 was unveiled Friday in front of the department's Brooklyn headquarters.
"Flag-Raising at Ground Zero," based on a photograph taken the day of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, will be bronzed at an upstate foundry before official dedication ceremonies in April in front of 9 MetroTech Center.
The $180,000 statue is the first memorial to the 343 firefighters and emergency medical personnel killed Sept. 11. Bruce Ratner, president and chief executive of Forest City Ratner Companies, which developed MetroTech, is underwriting the memorial.
Though it is inspired by the picture taken by Thomas Franklin, a photographer for The Record in Bergen, N.J., artists from the Brooklyn studio who crafted the 18-foot-high sculpture made subtle changes.
For one, the firefighters in the photo, who were all white, were replaced in the sculpture with three unidentified Fire Department staffers of three different races, artists said Friday. The clay firefighters' arms also appear more sinewy and their postures more upright.
The modifications came at the behest of Fire Department officials, said artists with Studio EIS, located on York Street in the Dumbo section.
Neither Franklin nor the three firefighters in the photo came to Friday's ceremony, to which they had been invited.
Mayor Rudolph Giuliani said the Sept. 11 flag-raising proved the terrorists did not achieve their ultimate goal of breaking the nation's spirit.
Calling the photograph "one of the most inspirational that I have ever seen," Giuliani said it showed that "the spirit of America ... was soaring above the evil deeds that were done to us."
Fire Commissioner Thomas Von Essen cried during the ceremony. He has announced he will retire after Giuliani's term ends with the Jan. 1 swearing-in of Mayor-elect Michael Bloomberg.
The eyes of Capt. James Graham of Rockville Centre, who works at Ladder Co. 102 in Bedford-Stuyvesant, also welled with tears during the service, which he attended after a morning off-duty spent combing the rubble of Ground Zero.
"It wasn't a fire," Graham said of Sept. 11. "It was an act of war."
Plans for a memorial in lower Manhattan remain under discussion.
After the ceremony, Giuliani said the city should build a temporary memorial in lower Manhattan before a permanent structure is built.
Of Ground Zero, Giuliani said: "We should not ... give the impression that the most important thing to us there is economic development, because it's not. The most important thing to us should be appropriately remembering, memorializing the lives of people that were lost there."
As of Friday, an Associated Press list of victims of the attacks on New York and Washington numbered 3,187 people. Of those, 2,954 were killed or lost in the Trade Center attacks, including the passengers and crew of the two hijacked jets that slammed into the Twin Towers.
Staff writer Dan Janison and The Associated Press contributed to this story.
© Copyright 2001, Newsday Inc.
Joshua Robin. STAFF WRITER, 'Flag-Raising' Statue Unveiled / Model inspired by Sept. 11 photo, 12-22-2001, pp A06.
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