I’m glad someone had the balls to break rank and skip it. I’ve had it with the 9/11 circle jerk. Enough already.
I too am outraged that a network didn’t observe a completely-made-up moment of silence for that sacred 11th anniversary. 8:46 a.m. never forget!
Nearly 3000 people died that day. They deserve better than to be used as political footballs.
I would hardly call the 9/11 ceremony a made up moment.
Our President and First lady led the ceremony yesterday. The Port Authority and NY Fireman were at Ground zero yesterday for the ceremony.
Sure, someday the time will come to let go of the past. But, that should be signaled by our Nation’s leaders. Some President will call a halt to any official ceremony. Until the, I will continue to pause for a minute or two and remember.
Fine. Just don’t generalize your opinion about what is an appropriate length of mourning to the rest of us.
If you could try pausing for a few weeks instead of only a minute or two, I’m sure people would appreciate it.
At this point, these moments of silence and tributes and memorials and similar observances are simply opportunities for public displays of breast-beating. NBC didn’t owe anyone any observance, and doesn’t deserve the “how dare you!” response it’s getting. If you felt the need to beat your breast on 9/11 at 8:46 a.m., there were plenty of other opportunities to do so.
I think I’d be more interested to know how much of this is actual outrage or how much of it is manufactured outrage by competing networks.
The first I saw of this was on Gawker, so you may draw your own conclusions.
I read this as “breast-feeding”.
I’d pause for that.
Yes,because dying in an accidental car crash is totally comparable to being murdered in a wide scale terrorist operation.Go take a look at yourself in the mirror,douche.
I wanna see footage of the Kardashian boob collapse.
Don’t insult other posters in this forum, please. You can do that in the Pit, but not here.
Several years ago, I made it a point of calling my mom on January 5. Why? My dad died on January 5, 2005. After a usual pleasant conversation, the subject of the significance of the date came up. My mom certainly remembered its significance. However, she told me that we should not make a date important just because of that. Birthdays and anniversaries are important (including my dad’s birthday and my parents’ anniversary), but the date someone dies shouldn’t get special attention. That is a sad enough day without having a gnashing of teeth and outward expression of mourning and grief. Instead, use that day to live, not die.
Seems like 9/11 could be treated the same way. I don’t care much about the Kardashians, but let’s just move on. This year, 9/11 was Tuesday. Big deal.
So the Today Show just gave us a different kind.
Can you imagine the blowback if someone dared breast-feed at a moment of silence ceremony? God forbid the kid belched.
Dead is dead.
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Agree on all counts!
I think it is safe to assume 99% of us on this board remember full well the events of 9/11 and do not need to be reminded. Nor do we have to hold hands and bow heads and genuflect at the mere mention of the date/time. I am not a big fan of public displays of grief and remembrance - and I am also not a fan of mandatory displays of patriotism to prove I am an American.
So yeah, call me a curmudgeon, but I prefer to remember and honor certain events in my own way and do not need to be, nor want to be, coerced into doing so.
This is what “moments of silence” sound like to me: In a few minutes, you will notice that I will stop talking for a moment. That is because I am going to be remembering an important tragedy from the past. I’m very sensitive that way. If you keep talking during that time you are a horrible jerk but it’s entirely up to you whether you want to participate in the moment of silence. Really, it’s OK if you want to hate America.
The first rule of moments of silence should be, you don’t talk about moments of silence.
Enough with the recreational grieving over 9/11. We don’t demand that people stop everything and display the proper emotion every December 7th, or November 22nd, January 28th, April 14th, etc. You want a country where everyone displays grief in unison, move to North Korea.