New 9/11 photos released
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Wow. Those are some amazing photos.
As a journalist I've seen all the 9/11 pictures I'll ever want to see for the rest of my life 
Things I'd never want anyone else to see and am glad were embargoed by the media. I think we went too far in showing the images we did!
Things I'd never want anyone else to see and am glad were embargoed by the media. I think we went too far in showing the images we did!
It's a shame that helicopters (like the one that took the photos) couldn't land and rescue anyone. I think they did try, though. I saw footage of an NYPD helicopter trying to land but it couldn't get close enough because of the fire and the smoke.
As a journalist I've seen all the 9/11 pictures I'll ever want to see for the rest of my life
Things I'd never want anyone else to see and am glad were embargoed by the media. I think we went too far in showing the images we did!
As a consumer of journalism, I think the media should show everything. I'm a grown-up and I do not need the news to be sanitized for my protection. If I don't want to see something, I know how to use the channel selector on my TV, the tuning dial of my radio, and I know how to put down the newspaper. Just report what you see. Please. I understand that it is probably next to impossible for there to not some bias in any news source, but I'd appreciate a little more effort in that direction.
Some of that was seen on-air as it happened, but has not been shown much, if at all, since.
Well, I hope to never be in a situation where that would become the best choice of action.
^ I'm sure none of those people wanted to die. But if it's a question of either a quick death by jumping, or a slow death by burning (due to being unreachable by firefighters), which would YOU choose?
I'm sure they didn't. And, I suppose, quicker is probably preferable to slower. But, as I said, I hope to never have to make the choice.
Unfortunately, context is everything.
I hope their virgins all looked like my balding, fat, cigar smoking Uncle Lou.
I hope their virgins all looked like my balding, fat, cigar smoking Uncle Lou.
OMG, images -- videos or pictures -- of that day are still totally surreal for me.
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IIRC, the NYC police chief was in that helicopter hovering near one of the towers and there were people on the roof signalling for the pilot to come pick them up. But he couldn't because of all of the antennas on the roof. All he and the chief could do was watch as the tower disintegrated beneath them.It's a shame that helicopters (like the one that took the photos) couldn't land and rescue anyone. I think they did try, though. I saw footage of an NYPD helicopter trying to land but it couldn't get close enough because of the fire and the smoke.
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I was thinking the exact same thing. Like a house of cards being toppled, there is a tragic beauty in destruction at a thing's acme. Then I remembered how it smelled, and that's what shocked me back into reality.
I think you raise interesting points. Who decides what to show? Why do they decide that? How does the media decide which images can be seen and which can't? Is the decision to censor taken by individual editors, or by the media as a whole? You refer to the media as a single entity. Is that how it works?
Im from the Uk, and have over the last few years done a project into 9/11. It began as an interest in survival psychology. I have printed off many statements about the day, and see most of the available photos on line.
I think the photos are quite beautiful, in a gruesome way. I also feel all the media information should be available to those who wish to see it, but, it should be via the New York Museum that has not long opened.
Being in the Uk, I watched the footage available on the day, it was lunch time here but we didnt get any gruesome stuff. Iv also got the dvds available.
I feel that its about remembering the people who died that day, everyone of them was a true hero.
NB: There are numerous studies trying to find the answers to the psychology displayed that day. One is situated at the Uk Greenwich Univercity and is connected to the use of stairs/lifts (elevators) during evacuations.
I think the photos are quite beautiful, in a gruesome way. I also feel all the media information should be available to those who wish to see it, but, it should be via the New York Museum that has not long opened.
Being in the Uk, I watched the footage available on the day, it was lunch time here but we didnt get any gruesome stuff. Iv also got the dvds available.
I feel that its about remembering the people who died that day, everyone of them was a true hero.
NB: There are numerous studies trying to find the answers to the psychology displayed that day. One is situated at the Uk Greenwich Univercity and is connected to the use of stairs/lifts (elevators) during evacuations.