My TV is off today.

these observances. This wallowing in grief does not allow for healing. In the ME, people observe anniversaries of deaths almost like an obsessive action. We are becoming like this. When so many die because of violent actions and wars, I think the inability to move on after a reasonable period of grief, keeps whole cultures mired in the past and unable to move past to other ways of resolving conflict. That day was traumatic, to be sure, but there are generations subsequent to that occurrence to be raised. I would love to see them learn that we must seek peace and that no society can move forward by forever ripping scabs off of its wounds and demanding unending vengeance be perpetrated on any group at hand it wishes.

When will America stop wallowing in the mud?

Let it go people. The world sucks life sucks. Sometimes the chickens come home to roost.

That was Republican Christmas.

Not a chance these incompetent assholes would have had a job after the first term without 9/11:

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at the same time managed to keep their emotions in check.

level of professionalism pick up once Brokaw and Andrea Mitchell showed up.

Over and ove
They should not replay 9/11 because we have moved on and no doubt adds to the sorrow of survivors and surviving widows and children

...but the broadcast from that morning (available on Youtube) is pretty amazing, IMO. Within 20 minutes of the second plane crashing (and before the towers even collapsed) the free-form discussion in the studio correctly hit on all the key elements: Islamic terrorism; hijackers; Osama bin Laden; al-Qaeda. Professional news organizations had to stumble over themselves to avoid any mention of these things until they had 'official' confirmation.

Without the need to be politically correct, the Stern show may have been the first media entity on that day which correctly 'reported' what was really going on.

as well (they used to have a running camera in the studio).. but that one is edited down & interrupted with after-the-fact commentary. The audio-only version is totally raw and honest.

Columbia at the the time. And, the main rescue experts to coordinate anti-terror ops for the FBI were all in Monterrey CA....an couldn't get back and couldn't keep in contact with FBI in NYC.

I was in a meeting when I heard about the first plane crashing and went back to my office to listen on the radio and being a fan of Howard that's what my radio was on. And you're right, they hit on all key elements, while other media outlets were stumbling.

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Just Say No To Death Porn.