I don't want to watch any more reports or documentaries about 9/11.

[miles]

At first I thought it was just me, but all day I overheard other people saying the same thing.

I'm not in denial. I just can't bring myself to watch the two planes hit the building, the flames, the people jumping to their death, and the collapse. Then the planes at the Pentagon and in PA. The mourning families. The funerals. The babies and families left behind. It's sensory and emotional overload.

My kids asked to go to a 9/11 Memorial Service tomorrow night, and I want to take them. I think we'll get a lot more out of that than we will the visuals.

Just my $.02

 

[Siren]

 

[Azwed]

Agreed.

I know it just can't be good for kids to see those visuals over and over again.

It is not good for adults and they at least have some kind of defense mechanism for it but kids are just totaly unprotected from it.

 

[Sillyman]

My family used to insist on eating while watching the damn footage. I don't want to see any of that shit again. Hopefully they won't have any fresh horror for us either.

 

[Ice Cold]

Hell they even had Mr. Rogers doing promos, saying Don't let your kids watch it. They may not understand and think it is happening again. While I think is is proper to honor the memory of the day, it should not be used as an excuse to endlessly show the horror of the news clips.

 

[miles]

I had a post about this as well.

IT is called burn out
and
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.......

we are all stressed out over the fear of terrorism
and
we are all burned out from mourning.

Bingo.

 

[Rubyfruit]

I can't even bring myself to look at the pictures in all the newspapers and magazines on the racks. I haven't watched one show on it.

I think the memorial service with your kids is a great idea, Miles.

 

[Spinaroonie]

Don't think that visiting here will be any better.

Everybody and their cousin will be posing memorials.

 

[CoolidgEffect]

At first I thought it was just me, but all day I overheard other people saying the same thing.

...

Just my $.02

I figure it is a good reason to ingore the media for a while and get other things done, or read a good book.

 

[medjay]

I'm sad to say that for the rest of the week I will be working as a grip for the local public television station, helping to bring even more 9/11 coverage to the people.

 

[Spinaroonie]

I'm sad to say that for the rest of the week I will be working as a grip for the local public television station, helping to bring even more 9/11 coverage to the people.

med....

At least Public television is garunteed to have class about it. Frontline has a different approach than Dateline's or The Pulses (if they haven't cancled that utterly crappy show) techniques of pushing a tragedy in your face and yelling at you.

 

[H'venlee]

I am not listening to the radio or watching tv tomorrow. I figure the silence will help me to look more inward, which is where I think we all need to focus. Ourselves, and those that we love.

 

[Siren]

 

[Aussie Worm]

And the unrelenting barrage of retrospective of 9-11 has begun tonight and is on every channel just about.


God help me, I cant escape it.

I'll help you, I'm almost a god

Turn it off! Or rent a movie.

*is lucky that his friend lent him his DvD collection while he went away on holidays*

 

[bored1]

The day should have been observed in a more sedate manner.

 

[teddybear4play]

I'm unlucky enough, or perhaps lucky enough, to have been away from television for most of this week. I imagine that everything's 9/11 centered, especially the 24-hour news networks, which I'm sure are running wall-to-wall with this.

That said, I want to see it tomorrow. I want to watch the memorial services especially, but also the clips of the horrible events of the day. I feel I owe it to the people who died, and to myself, as part of my own personal processes of grieving and moving on.

Of course, if it's not tastefully done, I'm changing the station.

TB4p

 

[Lust Engine]

I am not listening to the radio or watching tv tomorrow. I figure the silence will help me to look more inward, which is where I think we all need to focus. Ourselves, and those that we love.

I agree wholeheartedly with H'venlee.

We don't need to be bombarded with those events again in the media. We all know what happened. The details were horrid and while we'll never forget, we don't need to re-hash the pain again.

I plan on making a quiet sojourn to remember my friend who was lost in it all. I don't need the media spinning it for me to remember my loss.

 

[Laurel]

I agree. It's morbid and depressing, and not very healthy.

 

[Spinaroonie]

One year after the OKC bombing did they do anything even close to this? I can't remember.

(Berfore 9/11, the OKC bombing was the longest that TV had been running news continuously on all three networks)

 

[Rubyfruit]

I've noticed that there is almost no coverage about 9/11 on PBSKids.

 

[Purple Haze]

I was driving my kids to school one beautiful crisp autumn morning when I heard on the radio that a plane had collided with the World Trade Center, not long before this, I'd seen some jackass hung up on the Statue of Liberty with his hang-glider. I didn't think much of it right away because it sounded like some freak accident that had to happen sooner or later. As soon as I got to the office I switched on my little black and white Zenith that relayed the OJ verdict live on a different day, and sat spellbound watching a skyscraper burning while my morning latte went cold in my hand. It's impossible to put into words what I felt when plane number two smacked into a building as well, confirming a reality that had never before existed in me. While Dan Rather scrambled to explain what we were seeing, I turned away from my profession, my phone, my messages, and wanted to turn away from the television but I couldn't. The images kept repeating themselves, instant-replay, over and over again. Where is the truth, what the fuck happened, this isn't suppose to be, and the reporters with no info kept jabbering away, like a tree full of disrupted birds, they kept frantically jabbering away.

When the first tower collapsed, the television went silent.........



I don't need to see it again.

 

[Sillyman]

I think what has made me so different from many Americans was that I spent that day watching Cartoon Network.

 

[teddybear4play]

One year after the OKC bombing did they do anything even close to this? I can't remember.

(Berfore 9/11, the OKC bombing was the longest that TV had been running news continuously on all three networks)

I'm pretty sure they did, although perhaps not to the extent of now.

I think what has made me so different from many Americans was that I spent that day watching Cartoon Network.

There were only five channels on my cable system that were running normal programming on September 11: Nickelodeon, Animal Planet, Cartoon Network, Disney, and the Weather Channel.

And Purple Haze, that was the most poignant and intelligent thing I've ever read from you. Kudos.

TB4p

 

[chromefreak]

I understand everyone's reason's for not wanting to re-live last years horror. I was in London a year ago, and came home to a different country. One shouldn't feel homesick when they return home. One of the companies I worked closely with at my job was in the WTC. I had become accquainted and quite friendly with with a few of their employees there that I spoke to on a regular basis. Gone. Unanswered emails from 'em still in my mailbox, wishing me a happy vacation and discussing technicalities to address when I got back.

There are more healthy ways of remembering and honoring loved ones lost than getting depressed by the mass media.

 

[defiantdee]

I believe it is fitting and proper to honor/remember the events {as if anyone in the entire world could forget them} but it just seems as if the media wants to milk the sorrow for every tear it can. 5am now in Ohio and the television stations are already full of tributes, remembrances, etc. All most of it amounts to is replaying those horrific images as many times as they can, traumatizing the family, friends and loves ones of the people lost that day.

What about the children? Not only the ones who lost parents or friends a year ago but also the ones who will again today be forced to witness a passenger plane full of people slamming into a building. I say forced because in today's society most family life revolves around the television so there isn't any realistic way to prevent a child from witnessing the horror of it.

Personally, I will say a prayer or two or more, talk a little on here or with friends if someone else brings the subject up but I refuse to be force-fed those images again. Let the people who died that day rest in peace, let their families move forward.

Dee