Please Don't Remind Me

I am with you 100% on this one, Chris.

here, here Chris. I agree. Although I want to watch one program that I missed yesterday afternoon. The rest of day watch movies or better yet clean the house and work on wifes website at:www.petcreationsbyjackie.com

i agree too. im not american but it still sends shivers down my spine. i would block internet access too if you really dont want to be bombarded with stuff. already loads of sites with links. i posted one, but it was just a “my thoughs are with the family” kind of thing.

Thankfully at work we have MUZAK to listen to instead of regular radio. Even at such an early hour driving to work I was listening to stations talking about the events of 2 years ago. I think the media is putting too much hype on the event and forgot that the goal is to recover. Everyone will always remember I think that that is a given.

Probably a good idea. Ofcourse, I don't have cable and my regular tv is all snow, so I guess I have to join ya on that one.

Well then, if you don't want to be reminded, just shut up and go to the mountains, pal.

Spams about “protecting your assets” are particularly inappropriate today.
… but I agree that a day away from the media could do a lot of us some good.
Chin up!

Love to forget it. They always ruin my birthday!

Man, having your birthday on 9/11 must really have started sucking for the past 2 years.

I'm sorry Chris but I have never heard of over 3,000 people dying in a terrorist act.I agree with you though about being “bombarded” and I also choose not to view today's events.I was 2 blocks from the WTC when the attack took place and I lost close friends so today will be a hard day to cope.Anyway,I miss you on TechTv and look foward to seeing you sometime in the future on the boob tube.

Fair enough. *I* don't want to read you bitching about how a nation still in mourning goes about honoring the dead, so I'll stay away from your “woefully arrogant and innacurate “drivel for the next 23 days.

On one hand I cannot help but agree with you, Chris.
On the other, we must not become complacent. There are far too many who regard what happened this day 2 years ago as a 'tragedy' and what it was: an attack.
If we can somehow remove the entertainment value from the news media (the graphics and sounds comign out of every commerical, for example) and focus on remembering what the enemy has done to us, that would go a long way.

Watching it happen on television and being there in person is a gigantic difference. I honestly am unable to imagine what a soul-wrenching experience it must have been for people like Ken. Visitors from around the world will travel to the area for years and years to come, trying to get a sense of the monumental loss of life and human potential extinguished. Media blackout or not, it's impossible to force the images of that day from my mind. It is important for everyone not to forget, no matter how painful the memories.

Agreed.

I won't forget but I don't need newspeople discussing it to death.

well said.

true, karma is a *****. it shouldn't be remembered on just one day.

Great words Chris.

The TV screen is black and blank, and I'm listening to uppity big band music from the '40s! It's not to say I don't sympathize with the daily tragedies perpetuated by the absurdity of the human condition, but why not celebrate life while we've got it? I think it's a fine way to honor those who, for some unfathomable reason or another, are no longer with us. If I were among them, that's all I'd ask from the living. Live!

Right on Chris….I couldn't have said it better

perhaps we can start making the world a better place by voting against Bush in 2004. Keep putting the likes of him and his reich into power, and things will only continue to get worse. So don't blame it on phantoms, blame it on real people like Bush, Ashcroft, Rumsfeld and Chaney. Do something about it, vote Dem.

For those humans who want to see something…
http://www.WilWheaton.net
[by far the best tribute online]

Here here! I agree Chris….I'm tired of the media plastering every major catastrophe all over and milking it until it can no longer be milked. I no longer refer to it as news…it's media. It's reality Television….with a little kick.

It's funny how people hate what's on this blog, yet they still return to it and read it day after day after day.

I agree Chris it's time people wake up and realize that a life is a life no mater what country, race, or whatever. People suffer with terrorism everyday, and we're not helping any, look at Iraq there has been more terrorism there since we went into Iraq, we didn't do them any favors…

I will never forget 9/11 and I will watch and take part in services. And this war is just! We did them many favors.

I agree with the general sentiment of your remarks, although they may have been a bit harsh, all things considered. Whether or not we approve wholeheartedly, this is a big issue for a great many people, and I need to remember that all pain is relative. My pain may or may not equal or exceed someone else's…but it IS my pain.

I don't watch tv news reports anymore, just to much hype and drama. Rss is the way for me. to much **** news, Delete! Newspapers sometimes bt rarely now. no news today, is good news.

Yeah, that's right. Let's just ignoe it, and it will all go away.

I remember the day when Chris avoided political issues altogether. It sounds like he has now been on the left coast long enough to sound like an average Californian. I guess eventually your surroundings start to rub off on you. I'm gonna try to remember my roots of growing up in the midwest.
Just giving you a hard time, Chris. ;)

As a bumper sticker once read, “Question Everything!” This includes one's roots. Hey, maybe you'll discover your roots were right to begin with?

i agree life is life regardless….
but to prove that point by not acknowleding the tragedy we all went through 2 years ago? turning off the T.v and radio does not make it go away.
everyone is entitiled to there own opinion, but i will say this…it's a little alarming and to be honest rather disturbing reading in peoples blogs about there “i couldn't be bothered” attitude. have people become cold and insensitive????

It's not that we're insensitive. Don't you think the families that actually -lost- people are tired of the constant media circus? If they aren't, I am. I don't have to hear gloomy music, flags, and see one million and one 'United We Stand' bumper stickers to remember.
Like Chris said, America is not the only country that's seen innocent death. Where's your bleeding heart for everyone else?

Thanks you for your words. As a non-American it was interesting to see how the US reacted.

I agree with you. I'm not watching television either. It's too depressing.

I think ANY country would be self-indulgent if 3000 of their citizens were killed in a singular terrorist attack. I am Australian and we recently lost about 100 of our own in the Bali bombings and so have a sense of what many Americans are going through. Yes, todayÂ’s TV coverage maybe laid on a bit thick, but fully understandable.

very well said chris

…lips between butt cheeks [SMOOCH]…. You are all mostly lemmings. StrobeAlific got it right

You are insane. Perhaps you should come to NYC. We are reminded every day of the loss. Maybe we should just forget it since it happens all over… Keep your liberal *** in California. You arent worth anything. Looser

Right on Brother!!

I couldn't agree with you more. You'll probably take lots of heat for this and so will I. Placing a flag on your SUV and saying you're a patriot after this happened only is proving your ignorance. Real patriots fight to make a difference. Babies wish to continually morn and wonder how anyone could hate the United States. Ignorance is bliss for some I guess.
It's not that I don't care I'm just sick of this stupid media/ignorance circus this issue parades around.

Yet another, “my **** don't stink” post from good old C. Pirillo. Only this time you point out that you are even above paying a tiny bit of respect to the families of those who died in the tragedy. “Don't get me wrong”, but I'm pretty sure this is one of the only countries in the world where a moron like you can make money by writing junk email newsletters and scribbling **** on your bare chest. Keep up the good work chump.

I feel the same now. But yes it seems that way your surroundings effect you thank god i live in idaho!still like ya chris but come on!

Maybe you pro radio and telivison people were right after all. Theres nothing I like more then being bombarded by the same gutwrenching images, played over and over in a loop while a group of total strangers tell me the way it is suppose to make me feel.
Watching TV and listening to the radio would have been much better use of time then the phone call to my I made to my congress-woman about how ( some two years later) I don't actually feel any safer, or the e-mail I sent to My President asking how “WE” could do more for the moral of the service men and women fighing in the Middle-East.
Yeah this time next year I think I 'al just plant my *** on the couch and watch “the news” since that's the only real way to show your support for the victims of 9/11 right?

I was jokingly giving Chris a hard time, but he has a right to his opinion. We have the privilege of sharing ours because Chris has comments activated. We have different opinions. While we may not agree, that is what makes the world great. If everyone agreed all the time, life would be boring. I think there are two issues here…remembering and honoring 9/11 & the complete saturation of media coverage. Let's face it, if we don't let THE NETWORKS know how we feel, they will keep doing what they are doing. Either no one is telling them or the response they are getting is overwhelmingly in support of playing all the clips. So just remember, Chris is entitled to his opinion and we are all entitled to agree or disagree with him. If you don't like the way this works, don't come back here, move out of your mom's basement, learn how to spell and get a freakin' life already.

While Chris has a right to his opinion, and that is what makes this country great, I disagree with it. Yes, terrorism is out there in other countries, but nothing like this happens every day. 3,000 people?!?! It kinda scares me that an American would think this way and that someone from another country would comment back to because they wanted to see what Americans think. I hope they do not feel that all Americans think this way.

I love it when people don't agree with your personal opinions. That's whats great about this country. People are free to express their own beliefs and i am free to laugh at them. Keep up the good work Chris!

What I don't understand is how one can sit back and say that 3000 Americans dying is somehow more important than 3000 of some 3rd world countries innocent civilians dying. How many innocent civilians died in Afghanistan or Iraq all in the name of liberty? Look, the terrorists, fanatics, extremists, blah, blah, blah, bloodied our nose when they brought down the Towers. I think what we fail to realize is that Bin Laden and his cronies, view US as terrorists. We are just perpetuating this by killing innocent civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan. Now Bush is asking for 87 BILLION to help rebuild Iraq? What the hell? What about THIS country? What about 87 BILLION to help rebuild our economy which is in the toilet right now?

Where in the blog did Chris dismiss 3000 people? I didnt read it that way. The events of 9/11 were tragic, agreed, but for the media to tell us every five minutes to remember is overkill. I am in the DC area because of that event. I serve my country and am reminded daily of the “threats”. I can do without the reminders. Do we have to ONLY remember those events on 9/11 or can we do so privately each and every day since?
Oh, and just because we dont live in PA, NY, or DC doesn't mean we cant have feelings on the issue. You dont corner the market on sympathy.

Larktown, I hope that wasn't directed at me. I actually agree with what Chris said.

Just thought you'd like to know that your post was plagerized by the guy over at http://www.livejournal.com/users/_shawn
In case you cared :(

“I'm sorry Chris but I have never heard of over 3,000 people dying in a terrorist act.”
Hello?!? Ever hear of Auschwitz and the holocaust??? *rolls eyes*

Look, i'm just going to go right out and say it. Unless someone was directly affected by losing a loved one, most of us over here on the west coast really could care less about Sep 11th. To me it's just another day with annoying 24 hour New York coverage. Thanks to 9/11 New Yorkers have become even more annoying than before. Just letting you New Yorkers know what us west coast liberals really think.

The thing that's taken 'getting used to' in the new media age, is the ultrahype. One can be just as 'touched' by an event or a rememberance without being 'assaulted' with it, but 'marketshare' where eyeballs are concerned has corrupted the news delivery process. I don't want to miss important 'breaking' events, but to avoid the actual visceral/emotional baggage that comes with all this, my TV stayed off for damned near the whole week.

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