Its now been 11 years since those dreadful attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and not everyone feels it is important to remember the tragedy and the life lost. There are those that feel it is time to move on, time to move past that day and look to the future. You know what, if people feel like that, it is there prerogative and I hold nothing against them for feeling that way. I, however, feel that it is still important to look back and remember what happened, not so much to dwell on it and have it anchor us to the past, but more to respect the heroism that occurred on that day and the senseless loss of life we experienced. Whatever your decision, to remember or not, a decision must be made. You can't have both as NBC tried to do on 9/11. While I didn't see what they did, I heard the audio clip on the radio yesterday morning and found their actions to be quite despicable. For those that didn't witness it first hand, here is what they did. While running through their normal programming for that morning, they simultaneously played the live feed from the memorial services in New York; the ringing of the bell, the moment of silence, and the playing of taps. Hold on to your seats though as that is not the worst of it. What drives the nail into the coffin is that instead of taking a few minutes to respect those watching the memorial services in New York that was playing in a little box in the corner of the screen, they talked right over it, the bell, the silence, and the playing of taps. How much more disrespectful can you be than to talk while you can hear the events in New York taking place? Well, they took it down one more notch as it was a Kardashian (I don't really care if her name is spelled wrong) being interviewed and she was talking about getting her breast implants replaced. As I mentioned before, its despicable in my mind.
I mentioned the choice that people have, to either remember or to not. NBC royally screwed up by trying to do both. I guess they felt that by putting the memorial services in a little box in the corner of the screen that it would be enough to satiate those that wanted to remember. Maybe, but if you are going to do that, don't talk over it. Take a few minutes out of your breast implant conversation to maybe observe the moment of silence and listen to the playing of taps. Yet that is not what happened. Another simple solution would be to not have it at all signifying that they have moved on and will not be honoring the day and its events. I don't have a problem with that either. But you can't do two things at once, especially when it is the remembrance of a day that changed many lives in this country and abroad. The only reason I know about this is because a radio show dealt with this issue for quite some time yesterday. They were perhaps more enraged than I am about this whole ordeal. While I was listening to them, they brought up a really good point about the programming that NBC did that morning. They mentioned that regardless of what NBC might say, their programming was planned months in advance and they knew exactly what they were going to do on 9/11. It wasn't just some accident that the memorial services were playing while a big breasted bimbo blabbed over it. It was all planned and that alone makes it even worse. Through their actions, they are saying that this bimbo is more important than the events that happened on 9/11. I don't care who you are or what you believe in, a Kardashian will never trump 9/11. While I rarely watch NBC as it is, I will definitely not be watching them anytime soon. In fact, I am going to try to boycott their station as I feel what they did disrespected too many people.
What really got me this year in listening to the radio on 9/11 was the account a person had about exiting the building after the first plane hit while he was working there. Eleven years later and he was still getting choked up over the day. What got to this man most, and what hit home for me was the account of him and hundreds of others making their way down the stairs and watching firefighters laden with gear climbing up the stairs to save lives. As we know, most of those firefighters who were in the building did not make it out. It is those lives we remember on the anniversary of 9/11 and the thousands of others who died because of the attacks. There was also the account of two firefighters, cousins, working together at the Trade Centers that morning. One of them ushered out some people, handed them off to his cousin and went back in to get more. He never came back out. For NBC to say that these memories deserve to be talked over by an idiotic bimbo is to say that the heroism exhibited on that day doesn't matter. NBC essentially pulled down their pants, popped a squat, and shat on the memorial services of 9/11. They would have been better off not playing anything at all about the memorial services or even mentioning them. But alas, we have some idiotic people in places of power and they sometimes make really bad decisions. As a result, I strongly urge everyone reading this to boycott NBC and urge your friends and family to do the same. We should not let this fade quietly into the night. NBC needs to be held accountable for their actions.
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