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Originally Posted by REE1993
I purposely kept away from the tv, radio, and news outlets today. Does that make me a bad American, or just an apethetic human being?
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No. Neither.
We were chatting in our network control room today about the situation in New York City, where WABC-TV (Channel 7) had decided to carry the services from "Ground Zero," but not carry the reading of all of the names of the victims.
There was so much negativity, that the station caved in and carried the names.
Sorry if it's insensitive, but I don't see why five or six TV stations, along with several cable networks should all carry hours of reading of names. If a viewer really wants to see and hear that, they have many opportunities.
I would even venture to say that some people don't want to see that part because it disturbs them deeply. They really might
need alternative programming.
I'm as outraged, as moved and as hurt as most Americans, but I just don't see the value of so many media outlets doing the same thing at the same time.