[doglot]

I wonder if people really don't need to see this footage just so what happened isn't easily forgotten.

[SkyPilot]

Memo to Big Networks:

The Internet has 4 aces and you hold 2 pair. Those images will not be forgotten.

Deal with it.

[sheik yerbouty]

Does the lamestream press think we are children?

[WaterDragon]

Information managers. That is what they all are really. Not reporters, not news providers. Managers (little bureaucrats). Censorship. Propaganda. Managing images and words with the intention of manipulating our emotions -- for our own good, naturally.

They put an American-hater like Peter Jennings on every night. But the images that have changed this nation will be shown once, on one day.

[OXENinFLA]

Lets hope there are more sites like this. Also the Smithstoian may get involved the set up an historical libary.

http://tvnews1.televisionarchive.org/prog

[Behind Liberal Lines]

They don't want to show the footage because it undercuts their touchy feely BS message that Islam is a religion of peace and we are somehow responsible for what happened that day.

[Fishrrman]

I read an AP newspaper article about this yesterday. There are some images (such as people jumping from the Twin Towers and news footage of bodies laying in the streets around the Towers) that the cable and commercial networks claim they will never show to the American people, on the grounds that they are too "disturbing". Yet this same footage was shown openly on European television.

Surely these images continue to exist in archives _somewhere_. I would like to see an independent (i.e., non-news) effort to obtain and collect this "forbidden footage", perhaps compiling it into one or more videos that could be privately purchased through the Internet.

If this happens, before long the networks will no longer be able to "keep these images in the can". And they may decide that the American people finally should be shown what really occurred on that awful day.

Sometimes the "raw truth" hurts terribly. But it is essential that Americans -- in order to come to the realization of the power of the enemy we face -- see the impact of September 11th with all its horror.

Will we have to wait until a nuclear device explodes in Manhattan before we face that reality?

Cheers!
- John

[DM1]

These images need to be seen again to strengthen resolve so that people will not forget. Unfortunately too many people have forgotten and we have begun the slide down the path of liberalism once again.

[TADSLOS]

It needs to be shown every day during Ramadan.

[Vic3O3]

Lest we forget...
http://www.politicsandprotest.com/

[Vic3O3]

Lest we forget...
http://www.cantcryhardenough.com/

[Darlin']

".... said Thom Bird, senior producer at Fox News Channel. "The images of the planes hitting the buildings are the most powerful images related to that day."

That is precisely why they should be shown throughout the day and throughout the year. In the space of a few minutes thousands of innocent civilians were murdered and we must never allow those images to fade or soften. IMHO the moment of impact, the faces of the 19 murders and Osama, the smoking pile of rubble are as critical to a 9-11 memorial as remembering those who were lost.

[swarthyguy]

I know i'll be accused of morbidness and obsessiveness; dwelling on the tragedy of the past, but it was a stinkin' crime that they stopped showing this last year so soon after the attacks.

The excuses of not traumatising the kids are crap. Don't let the kids watch.

I was (not looking forward) but hoping to see a compendium of all the video shot that day. Guess I'll have to be satisfied with the specials run around the New Year.

Maybe the Spanish channels will give more accurate pictures.

This should be shown ad infitum every time we get some bozo apologist on the airwaves.

[Britton J Wingfield]

I'm going to email fox news and tell them to show all the footage, especially the stuff they didn't show on the day of the attack. I guess I'll just start hitting email addresses, starting with Bill O'Reilly.

[Leisler]

REMEMBER!

[js1138]

I see it all the time. Don't need no stinking TV.

[skeeter]

"There have been thoughtful conversations among our [news] executives as to what will take place before those images are inserted into any taped pieces," Gollust said.

Those images do not BELONG to you. They belong to the American people and their progeny.

How dare you assume otherwise.

[Looking4Truth]

I caught hell for this thread last year when I posted it. In fact I haven't even looked at it for over six months.

I'll check it again of course but I do remember some good FReepers giving me some links in it.

http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3bd505d44366.htm