This is the famed documentary by brothers Gedeon and Jules Naudet, who were with FDNY personnel on 9/11, and captured rare footage of the first plane hitting the World Trade Center.
"The updated version, which has been in the works for a year, will include interviews with 20 of the firefighters from the downtown Manhattan firehouse where the Naudets had been filming for months. Robert De Niro, who narrated the film, will tape new portions next week. More than 39 million people watched the documentary during its first airing in March 2002."
While I can certainly understand the concern, this documentary, in its original form, has already aired on CBS. According to the related story above, "CBS is taking steps to make sure that no one is caught by surprise, including informing affiliates of its plans to air the broadcast and, like the previous two telecasts, including strong warnings in the promos before the broadcast and at various points during the two-hour telecast."
If it's a test case for CBS, and they're allowed to air the profanity, all the other networks will then want to show their profanity-laced programs. And we'll be right back where we started, before these stricter rules went into effect.
If there is no out-pouring of complaints from the public, they will go further the next time.
Exactly right. If the public gives this program a pass, because of the subject matter, it will be setting a precedent, and we'll be back to the same old profanity.
Good heavens. If any event calls for a healthy dose of profanity, this is it. I still cuss about it. Up your A$$, Osama. You and the camel you rode in on.
It's a set-up for future programming and a pretty transparent one at that, since they've already shown it sans the hardcore profanity. Bleeps give a pretty good idea of what was said.
Or are the filmmakers really that incapable of taking 9/11 events and making a substantive, compelling program without raunchy language?
What a dumb thing to complain about. 9/11 needs to be seen again, and not some bowdlerized version.
Good let them show it. I don't care about p*ssy ears anyway. They can shut off the tv. This adult can take profanity (as you can see).
"...contains a tremendous amount of hardcore profanity..."
That description would apply to OBSCENITY or INDECENCY.
Mere profanity is PROFANITY.
Profanity is traditionally prohibited in the hours of 6am-10pm. Safe harbor is the time from 10pm-6am.
Profanity is bad language.
Indecency is sexual innuendo (and doesn't even require bad words, it is the nature of the discussion).
Obscenity is detailed/graphic descriptions of sexual and excretory acts.
If something were "hardcore profanity" it would crossover into the realm of obscenity.
Words mean things.
Is this the same group that complained about Schindler's List be aired uneditted on NBC a few years ago?
I think it was NBC who had the flight recordings of that incident, and they played them, with the profanity, on the Nightly News.(John Chancellor at that time)
It raised a ruckus, but the tapes were very powerful.
This is a documentary, which means its real life. This was an ugly horrible and devastating event...there is absolutely no reason why it should be edited in any fashion. If you think your children aren't mature enough to handle it, send them to bed or watch something else. If your kids are mature enough to handle it but you still wont let them watch it then shame on you. I know for a fact that learning to how to react and deal with real life situations that arent pretty and polite is a necessary skill. If you send your kids off to school and heaven forbid theres some kind of terrorist attack at said school, do you want them standing up pointing to the kid next them in disbelief because they said a "naughty word?"
We've seen the uncut version of the black disaster in New Orleans, now let's see the uncut version of the white disaster in New York.
Its amazing to me that there can be a need to remake for dramatical or documentary purposes an event like this...
I don't see why...
I do not need a film (for whatever purpose) to remind me, or show me somethign different that I may not fully understand about a certain aspect of that day...
It is forever, without any need to be re-kindled, re-inspired, inbedded in my soul...
Remembering my wife was in the tallest potential target in downtown Houston...Telling her to just get her purse and leave the office...I told her not to get on the bus system, it would be clogged...I told her to go to a spot we both knew that was a relatively safe area till I went to pick her up myself...We'd deal with fighting our way home together...
It was not out of fear, but it was out of being prudent to remove yourself from a potential risky environment...
A lot of people around the country did that...
And then we all sat in front of TV's all over the place watching all of the scenes being worked, and knowing that more could've come our way...
I don't need a reminder...After five years, I don't need someone to tell me about 9-11...
I remember it everyday, and will do so for the rest of my life...It is something you cannot forget...
What? Surely not! Why, I have it on good authority that the witnesses and first responders never dreamed of using language stronger than "Mercy Me!" or perhaps "Dagnabbit!" in response to the horror unfolding before their eyes.
These morons need to STFU and get a life.
I do wish there was an edited version out. I want my children to see this. I do not want this next generation's view of 9/11 sugar-coated in any way except for the absence of a 4-letter word (you know the one).
For someone who owns the film on DVD and has made a point of watching it every September 11 for the past three years (and I will again this year, along with United93), I can tell you the "profanity laden" accusation is exaggerated. There are some F and S words, yes. But it is the real reactions of real people experiencing real horrors on a very real day.
If the AFA has a problem with that, tough.
Why is it OK for CBS to air unedited profanity?If/when that happens, can we expect Jim Robinson to allow a word for dirty-word tanscript here at Free Republic?
If not, why not?
I understand that people would be concerned about certain words being on the television.
I am concerned myself, of course, with what my children watch..and monitor it VERY closely.
That being said...
By the time my child is OLD enough to see this documentary..he will already know the word F*&K and any other word that is spoken on the film.
It will probably be the first time we listen to those kind of words together....and I am sure hearing the F-Word will be the LAST thing on our minds.
TV Gnatzi's with their panties in a bunch. There's nothing decent about 3,000 American's losing their life. To have 9/11 sanitized is tantamount to shading the truth.