Is there too much emphasis on the 9/11 anniversary?

jimbobaloobob · 06-09-2011 10:22PM #1

Every year there seems to be more and more documentaries of the 9/11 incident.

Do you think theres a saturation in the coverage on tvs at this time of year?

Personally i think its just meat for the media sandwich and feeding peoples emotions of sorrow and gloom

W.Shakes-Beer · 06-09-2011 10:25PM

There's too many threads on 9/11 for one.

mike65 · 06-09-2011 10:27PM

11/9 you mean?

jimbobaloobob · 06-09-2011 10:28PM

I agree with you, but its the only one ill start.

I just feel it gets alot more recognition that many events of bigger or similar scale have maybe driven by its location. Im not interested in conspiracy or terrorist claims.

Crazy Horse 6 · 06-09-2011 10:28PM

It's disgusting and this comes from a person who lived in NY for 7 years including on September the 11th. Right now as we type thousands are starving to death in Africa and yet all we keep hearing about is an event that occured several years ago.

abouttobebanned · 06-09-2011 10:29PM

We soak up American culture in their music, movies and TV. In fairness, thousands of people were murdered.

Fukuyama · 06-09-2011 10:30PM

Too much attention.

Some of the victims families have said they don't want all the attention or for their dead relatives to be given this 'All American Hero' style martyrdom legacy.

Let it pass with a small ceremony I say.

Fukuyama · 06-09-2011 10:31PM

mike65 wrote: »

11/9 you mean?

What happened on the 9th of November?

Crazy Horse 6 · 06-09-2011 10:36PM

abouttobebanned wrote: »

We soak up American culture in their music, movies and TV. In fairness, thousands of people were murdered.

American soldiers have killed upwards of 70,000 Iraqi people since September 11th, why are'nt the media covering this with anniversys and hour long specials every year. Oh that's right they have darkish skin right.

Irish Guitarist · 06-09-2011 10:41PM

Channel 4 started advertising 9/11 documentaries a month ago. It's almost as bad as the way channels show Christmas advertisements two or three months before Christmas now.

Enough has been said about it already. They keep rehashing the same documentaries every year. It's pointless and depressing. I saw the planes flying into the World Trade Centre when it happened and I really don't need to see it happening over and over again.

Maybe we'll start to hear less and less about it after this year. It might end up like Pearl Harbour, the documentary channels will show something every five or ten years but not every single year.

castletownman · 06-09-2011 10:47PM

No there isn't. It was argueably the most tragic terrorist attack ever, and while it may be over-saturated in the media, it's hard not too overlook. Certainely the most significant event of my 23 years of life, except for the fall of the Berlin Wall (which I don't remember)

LC2010HIS · 06-09-2011 10:47PM

It's kind of annoying alright. It's glorified, like a Michael Bay movie.

There are other tragedies in the world eg Somalia, Haiti, Norway etc

It was something we have never seen before but... there are 4channels on my tv tonight airing 9/11 documentries!
Come on like.....!:mad:

goose2005 · 06-09-2011 10:50PM

castletownman wrote: »

No there isn't. It was argueably the most tragic terrorist attack ever, and while it may be over-saturated in the media, it's hard not too overlook. Certainely the most significant event of my 23 years of life, except for the fall of the Berlin Wall (which I don't remember)

Rwanda genocide? Overall end of the USSR? Human Genome Project? Death of Katy French?

LC2010HIS · 06-09-2011 10:52PM

goose2005 wrote: »

Death of Katy French?

I still dont know who she was

castletownman · 06-09-2011 10:54PM

goose2005 wrote: »

Rwanda genocide? Overall end of the USSR? Human Genome Project? Death of Katy French?

I actually forgot to mention the death of MJ!!

But in all seriousness, if it's all well and good for American shows and even American mannerisms and sayings to dominate television and lifestyle over here, then surely the tenth anniversary of it's biggest tragedy since Pearl Harbour is going to get a lot of media attention

Karona · 06-09-2011 10:56PM

For me, its good to remember those poor people who died from this tragic event. Our family thought we lost my brother then, it was terrifying. I can only imagine people who did lose someone to the Twin Towers what they went through.

castletownman · 06-09-2011 10:59PM

Karona wrote: »

For me, its good to remember those poor people who died from this tragic event. Our family thought we lost my brother then, it was terrifying. I can only imagine people who did lose someone to the Twin Towers what they went through.

I agree totally. I have a photograph at home of me and my family standing outside the WTC dated at August 10th 2001. Considering what happened a month later it is a kind of personal event for me.....

CardBordWindow · 06-09-2011 10:59PM

A bit of a distraction from the economy crap I suppose.

starbelgrade · 06-09-2011 10:59PM

castletownman wrote: »

No there isn't. It was argueably the most tragic terrorist attack ever, and while it may be over-saturated in the media, it's hard not too overlook. Certainely the most significant event of my 23 years of life, except for the fall of the Berlin Wall (which I don't remember)

I have a great feeling that it only holds such significance in your life because it's something that happened in your own back yard. It was no doubt, a tragic event, but on the scale of things, only hugely significant because of where it happened & how much media attention it got.

The only thing that really surprised me about the attacks is that something like that has never happened before on U.S. soil, considering it's abysmal foreign affairs policies.

3,000 people died in the attacks, but that pales into insignificance against some of the major events of the last 10 years - the likes of the Sudan War where up to 400,000 people died, the US invasion of Iraq which has seen up to one million people die and the Congo War which saw around 4 million people killed.

But then again, if you want to believe everything you hear on Fox News & make it out to be the greatest tragedy of the 21st Century, then knock yourself out.

Some day, you may wake up to realise that America is not the centre of the universe... just a country with far too much money, power and sense of self importance for it's own good.

Liam Byrne · 06-09-2011 11:01PM

abouttobebanned wrote: »

In fairness, thousands of people were murdered.

Just like in Iraq ?

castletownman · 06-09-2011 11:04PM

While I appreciate everyone else,s different views, I don't know how one can compare the lives lost as a result of an act of terror to the lives lost in two civil wars in a war-torn continent.

RichieC · 06-09-2011 11:09PM

castletownman wrote: »

While I appreciate everyone else,s different views, I don't know how one can compare the lives lost as a result of an act of terror to the lives lost in two civil wars in a war-torn continent.

I can never quite understand this argument. Pearl Harbour though a military target was also "different".... hmm.

starbelgrade · 06-09-2011 11:11PM

castletownman wrote: »

While I appreciate everyone else,s different views, I don't know how one can compare the lives lost as a result of an act of terror to the lives lost in two civil wars in a war-torn continent.

You said that the attacks was the most significant event of your 23 years.

I made the comparison simply to show how - on the greater scale of things - how insignificant they were.

castletownman · 06-09-2011 11:16PM

starbelgrade wrote: »

You said that the attacks was the most significant event of your 23 years.

I made the comparison simply to show how - on the greater scale of things - how insignificant they were.

That's fair enough.

Maybe I'm going slightly off-topic, but from an Irish respective how significant are the wars in Sudan and Congo? How many Irish had relations/descendants caught up in 9/11?

But everyone is entitled to their opinion, and I respect that......

jimbobaloobob · 06-09-2011 11:17PM

Lets keep the discussion to the question posed and not take it down the pearl harbour etc route.

Only reason i asked the original question was that earlier i was at my parents house and flicking channels tv3 had two documentaries on 9/11 scheduled for tonight.
i feel at this stage theres documenatires done for the sake of it. Tommy was rescuing the cat from the tree on 9/11 etc.
Some of the stuff bears no link to the event only that they found some tragic story to stick in the programmes.

Theres no harm in remembering the dead and i fully agree with it. Was at the bottom of the WTC only a week before the event myself but its the constant bombardment of programmes each year that has me.

The genocide of Rwanda or the Tsunami in 2006,don't get similar wall to wall documenatries, nor do i think the earthquakes in Japan or Christchurch will on their anniversaries.
Maybe im wrong but i think the media think that sensationalism is all we want to watch.

starbelgrade · 06-09-2011 11:21PM

castletownman wrote: »

That's fair enough.

Maybe I'm going slightly off-topic, but from an Irish respective how significant are the wars in Sudan and Congo? How many Irish had relations/descendants caught up in 9/11?

But everyone is entitled to their opinion, and I respect that......

From an Irish perspective, the wars in Sudan & the Congo have had little or no effect. I would hazard a guess that a large percentage of the population don't even know that they ever occurred.

There would be very few who know nothing about 9/11, which is a damning comment on the state of play in western society.

Gigiwagga · 06-09-2011 11:31PM

I actually called RTE today trying to get some information on the documentary 'The Day That Changed The World' broadcast on Monday night, IMO a load of pro US right wing propaganda, nobody in RTE could tell me who sanctioned the broadcast of such drivel. It just seemed to have appeared there magically.

El Weirdo · 06-09-2011 11:35PM

castletownman wrote: »

...if it's all well and good for American shows and even American mannerisms and sayings to dominate television and lifestyle over here...

You say that like you think it's a good thing.

Sir Niggalot · 06-09-2011 11:37PM

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mossyc123 · 06-09-2011 11:46PM

Crazy Horse 6 wrote: »

American soldiers have killed upwards of 70,000 Iraqi people since September 11th, why are'nt the media covering this with anniversys and hour long specials every year. Oh that's right they have darkish skin right.

Link?

I highly doubt that is true to be honest.

The vast majority of Iraqi people have been killed by Insurgents and general instability, not US soldiers.

El Weirdo · 06-09-2011 11:47PM

mossyc123 wrote: »

Link?

I highly doubt that is true to be honest.

The vast majority of Iraqi people have been killed by Insurgents and general instability, not US soldiers.

What? Like falling over?

Is there too much emphasis on the 9/11 anniversary?

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