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Originally Posted by DeltAlum
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.
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I agree, everytime I turned around yesterday, there was something else on. I really liked the fact that NPR (which I listen to everyyy morning
) had a special on it, but didn't broadcast (but did stream the ceremony on their website). They did specials with interviews, etc.
I also heard this later on that evening on my way home about
Sheikh Rashid Lamptey
I was at work all day so i stayed away from the TV until I came home and watched a documentary on the History channel about Rick Rescorla (
http://www.rickrescorla.com/)
I think it was pretty excessive the way that things were shoved at people from every mass media outlet.