I will need a translation, but the site that linked to this ad said it was somehow glorifying the Sept 11 hijackers and how much they “accomplished” in a mere three months.
Can anyone confirm this?
I don’t speak Spanish, but it looks to me like it’s an ad for the Spanish newspaper El Pais offering a three month subscription.
I think the ad is saying a lot can happen in one day, imagine what can happen in three months. In other words, get the three month subscription and you will be able to keep up with fast-chaning events.
Not particularly subtle, but I don’t think it’s meant in an offensive way. I’m not offended.
A lot happens in one day.
Imagine what can happen in three months.
Now, if you subscribe to El Pais.es before October 8th, we’ll give you three months free.
In El Pais.es you will find all real up to the minute information analyzed from all perspectives, stories from the last hour, more than 1.3 million articles published since 1976, exclusive multi-media animations and some of the best writers of our country.
Subscribe now to El Pais.es & enjoy the three free months of news.
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I don’t find it offensice either.
And I don’t find it offensive either. 
Ivylass, what site linked to the ad and made that claim? I’d be interested to know if the rest of the site is so splendidly informed.
I dunno…maybe it’s a geographical proximity thing, but yeah, I’m a bit offended.
I get a enough day-to-day reminders of what happened. Someone using it to sell newspapers strikes me as a bit crass.
I guess it depends where they’re coming from. If it’s a “Woohoo, see what the hijackers did with three months of planning, imagine what you can do with three months of free news,” then, yeah, the ad is disgusting. But if it’s more along the lines of “A lot of news can happen in one day. Imagine how much news you miss by not getting three months of free news from El Pais…”
It’s in rather poor taste, either way. YMMV, of course.
My most generous view of it would be: Don’t miss even one day of news. Look at what can happen in one day.
I’m with Ivylass. Not really offensive, just in poor taste.
I don’t think they are glorifying the hijackers, but using 9/11 to sell newspapers does seem rather insensitive.
I don’t find it offensive, nor in por taste.
The translation appears to be along the lines of ‘This happened in one day, im agine what could happen in 3 months’. I agree with ivylass–it’s not outright offensive but IMO it’s poor taste.
And I am now sidetracked by the utterly bizarre post organisation in this thread.
Talk about trying to find offense where there is none intended.
This is the home page of the blog this nonsense came from. Fluttering Stars and Stripes, an “I’m A Proud Friend Of Israel” .gif - I think we can see where they’re coming from :rolleyes:
Read about a third of the way down the main page for this “story”. Note that he immediately jumps to conclusions about what it says despite admitting that “my Spanish is very rusty”. To give him credit, he did acknowledge his mistake, but quite why he would think that a Madrid-based newspaper would support Al-Qaeda terrorism I have no idea.
So by putting images of the attack on their front pages, on 10 Sept 2001, they were being ‘insensitive’? After all, the front page is the main selling point of any paper…
Are the times messed up? I’ve noticed several threads where I’ve posted last, but the time stamp on the post before me is later in the night, so my post appears before the end.
Just a guess, but I’m thinking that the board upgrade temporarily reset everything to GMT, and since then it’s been adjusted to show GMT - 6. For some reason, though the prior post times didn’t reset.
I don’t find the ad offensive either.
I wonder if anyone else noticed this: if the second photo really had been taken on Sep. 12, wouldn’t there still have been a big cloud of dust in the air?
I started thinking the same thing driving home today. I think they might have taken liberties with the photos. There was a lot of smoke around as I recall. I worked near the Pentagon which was a much smaller attack site and there was thick smoke on Sept. 12.
Actually, make that 12 Sept :smack: (…unless you want a big conspiracy theory 
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