Its not that I don't care about the 10th anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Centre. It was a defining moment without doubt and the world did change.
However both the TV and radio schedules are filled with retrospectives and reviews on what happened. Not that this is a worthless exercise, but for TV this seems to be nothing else than an excuse to replay the shots of the planes flying into the towers or people throwing themselves from the buildings rather than burn.
If there was a reason for this, other than showing endless loops of what can best be described as 'news porn'. But it is sensations for sensations sake, not looking at the effects, the hundred of thousands of lives lost in Iraq and Afghanistan. The billions of dollars spent on hardware and given to warlords; the laws broken, our values broken as we engaged in torture and dendition.
The programming began on Monday and will intensify up to Sunday when the 11th actually falls. I shall avoid the news on both TV and radio, and remember the innocent lives lost that morning in New York, and those lost in the follies that followed.
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I've shut my mind from the whole thing. I was home that day and watched the entire thing unfold hour by hour.
I have no interest in re-living the day.
I managed to miss every program on TV, switched off the radio whenever the subject came on. Not easy when BBC Radio 5 sent a team out to NY for a whole week to cover it.
Flickr was, of course, filled with 'tribute' images; I would like to think they were done with the best of intentions, not just to get onto Explore again.
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