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Actually I was kind of surprised by this response, especially by someone who lives pretty close to GZ. While I don't think what your saying is wrong, from what I know from a couple of those families (as I live in the NY metropolitan area too), they DON'T want the huge to-dos to disappear; if anything, they're afraid if they do, 9/11 will be "forgotten" faster and disappear from people's memories.
If anything I hear what you are saying more from people NOT directly affected by 9/11, things like, "it's 12 years, haven't they had enough already?", "do we need to keep being reminded of this, let's move on", etc.
In that sense, I think going through the decades, it will play out in terms of public consciousness pretty much the same way Pearl Harbor played out.......
Some of us just AREN'T going to be able to forget, ever. It's 8:46 a.m. on September 11, 2001, in my head at some point every single day, and I suspect that will be the case until the day I die. And in less than two weeks, everyone will show up at work in my office remembering all the people we once worked with that didn't make it out that day. We can't just pretend it's not there.
I don't expect people who were not closely impacted to feel that way, though, anymore than I think of the Joplin tornados or Katrina every day.
I do like to read about it, however, so I hope if Al Jazeera or any other media outlet covers it, they do a well-thought-out job with a fresh perspective.
As for Al Jazeera's "biases", I've always been kind of split on them. Like (sadly) most news outlets today, be it MSNBC or Faux News, etc. they show a clear "bias" in a lot of their Middle East reporting. No, they don't scream "death to America" or "the Israelis are devils" on air, etc. and I wouldn't call their reporting to be anything like that, but when there's say an Israeli-Palestinian incident (be it a terrorist attack or some incident where the IDF had "collateral damage" and some innocent civilians got hurt or killed in the crossfire), the terrorists are ALWAYS referred to in terms that smack of "self defense" regarding the former and the IDF as being "aggressive" or "bad planning", etc. regarding the latter. Now it's possible the "bad planning" part (in terms of avoiding civilian casualties) is sometimes true, but AJ ALWAYS refers to these kinds of events that way.
Ah, no. Liberals like PBS because its news is unbiased and delivered at an intellectual level suitable to the higher IQs of liberals (versus low-IQ/dim wattage right wingers).
Be careful, you Mayfield on your hubris. PBS reporters are biased. Their funding relies on federal tax money they get from democrats.
BTW, you (intentionally, sadly) misspelled "democrats." It's "Democrats," just as "republicans" are properly termed "Republicans." This sort of childish nonsense epitomizes the pettiness of the radical right wing in America. Fortunately, Republicans are dying out -- their only constituency is elderly white folk. The demise of the America-Hating/Terrorist-enabling Republican right is near. That's good news for America!
Ah, no. Liberals like PBS because its news is unbiased and delivered at an intellectual level suitable to the higher IQs of liberals (versus low-IQ/dim wattage right wingers).
It is the same exact thing as CNN just different people and crappy quality.
AJ is my favorite news source because they are the most objective and I think they will stay true to form.
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