There is already a buzz regarding television coverage of 9/11 this year.
I just don’t know if I am ready to spend a day re-living what I have certainly never forgotten. It is not denial. I just think I am not really in the mood to relive every horrible minute of that day - with interviews and additional footage…
I think I might take the day off work, go see a movie, go to a restaurant and maybe take a long walk or something.
Call me a wimp, but I’m just not ready to re-live it over again.
I will be at work, with a tv on my desk, just like last year.
The tv isn’t normally on, as I have a radio, but it was last year.
My kids will be at school, I will be at work, and I may watch tv. I’m still trying to work through all the emotions.
I plan on wearing a red skirt, a white shirt, and a blue blazer that day.
I don’t call you a wimp. People deal with this in different ways. For me, I think I want to keep the wound a little raw…I don’t want to get blase’ about it.
I will be at work, with a tv on my desk, just like last year.
The tv isn’t normally on, as I have a radio, but it was last year.
My kids will be at school, I will be at work, and I may watch tv. I’m still trying to work through all the emotions.
I plan on wearing a red skirt, a white shirt, and a blue blazer that day.
I don’t call you a wimp. People deal with this in different ways. For me, I think I want to keep the wound a little raw…I don’t want to get blase’ about it.
I’ll be at work, but when I get home, I’ll pop in a classic “Mystery Science Theater 3000” episode or two. I just can’t watch those towers come down again and again. The same goes for the Challenger disaster. I just change the channel whenever it’s shown.
What’s weird is that I have no toruble watching the Zapruder film. The difference, I figured, being that with Challenger and the WTC, we know why they happened while with JFK, the jury’s still out.
I may watch some coverage in the evening. My dilemma is with work. I’m in sales. My check is dependent on working the phones, visiting people, etc. Problem is, there are going to be so many different mindsets on the 11th, I don’t really want to risk pissing someone off by calling on them that day. Haven’t decided how I’m going to handle that one yet.
I plan on watching “9/11” on CBS on the 8th. I missed that the first time around. As for the 11th, I’ll turn on the TV.
I’m going to ignore the whole thing as best I can. The hype gets on my nerves. I don’t have any American flags on my home, car, or person.
What twickster said.
It’s not that I don’t feel sad about what happened; I’m just sick of all the cheap sentimentality and emotional manipulation that’s happened since then. If I see one more “Tribute to the Victims of 9/11” halftime show, I’m going to throw up.
Robin
I’m going to have a picnic. It seems a little flippant, but somehow it just seems right to me. Some sun, some frisbee, some strawberry shortcake- all the things that make America great, but without too much hype. I don’t want to be anywhere near a TV- I want to be near the people I love, not watching a bunch of slicked-up coverage.
I’ll continue on as usual; I have classes all day anyway. I certainly remember it like it was yesterday.
Wow, I can’t believe it’s been a year already.
I’m working at night (assuming I still have a job, come then), so I won’t be able to do much, but when I come home, I plan on getting smashed and listening to Henryk Gorecki’s Symphony of Sorrowful Songs while I watch whatever’s on TV.
I’ll be working hard to bring you all the coverage you never wanted of everything you never wanted to see of all the commemorations that you never wanted to know about of an event you wish that you could forget ever happened.
Why? Because I work in broadcast television…
We’re going to use up more satellite time that day than the day it happened - almost.
Sorry - I can’t always be proud of my job.
TVGuy, thanks for being so honest.
I think what got me going on this, with the OP, was seeing Lisa Beamer hawking her book, her website, her sale of tshirts and her (self) personification as the pretty blonde martyr.
Maybe that is heartless of me.
I find it gratuitus and it makes me sick.
I don’t envy your job.
It must be difficult to draw that fine line from maudlin to respectful.
I plan on having fun. I’ll skip everything remotely designed to make us feel maudlin, depressed, sad or whatnot.
But the sad thing is that there are people in your industry that are proud of themselves, and are crowing about how the networks will selflessly sacrifice a day of normal programing on 9/11 to bring “full day coverage”. The selfless part being that a lot of companies won’t pay to advertise during such carryings-on, I guess.
Me, I’ll look for a station that is business as usual, not devoting themselves to re-opening wounds that have barely begun to heal. If I can’t find any, well, there’s always dvds or cds.
I’ll be watching the coverage, because I am totally freaking obsessed and I can’t help it, even though I know it’s cheap and manipulative and probably jingoistic and war-mongering too.
I expect that halfway through the evening MrWhatsit will get fed up and take Whatsit Jr. out for a walk and leave me glued to the 9/11stravaganza on the television set. Sigh.
Elfkin, I totally agree with you. I wish I could spend the day reading a book.
Don’t get me wrong, every once in a while, I feel that my industry does do well by its viewers. In fact, a good deal of the coverage on 9/11/2001 was just that sort of coverage - up until we got to showing the planes hitting the towers for approximately the 4,566th time in six hours…
I enioy what I do (I’m in the engineering side of the business, not directly involved in the newsgathering side) and I’ve loved my job for almost 25 years now - I’m pretty lucky in that respect, actually. But there are times that I really, seriously think about chucking it and going to make donuts or something. We have a tendency in our business to find a good thing and flog it so badly that we turn the very people we are trying to inform against us.
There are just some days that I am almost embarrased to say that I work in broadcasting.
9/11/2002 will be one of those days.
“Full-day coverage” of an event that happened a year ago? I understand the full day coverage on 9/11/2001. I understand full-day coverage of elections, or the Olympics, or any other on-going event. This isn’t full-day coverage, it’s a full-day rehash. Wednesday is movie day, and I’ll be going to a matinee as usual. I see no reason to let my normal routine be interrupted.
I’ve ranted somewhere else, but that’s not stopping me from doing it here too. It’s my birthday, so I’m focusing on me, me, me. I’m going to a friend’s house to watch movies & drink & eat Chinese take out. I plan on having a really, really good time. If I don’t, I’ll have only myself to blame. Last year, I had a desire to get a really short haircut, I had an early morning appt. I think I will never cut my hair again. I’m female, btw, & have always had long, long hair.