Are we all slaves of the media???

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10 years 09/11 - asking what have you been doing at that day...

Yes, it is a special day. Like Chernobyl 1986, like lockerbey, like the hunger of folks in africa, like the GAU (Maximum credible accident) in Japan... But I do not like that the media (TV and Radio and Newspapers) have this topic of 9/11 top priority all week. I cannot enjoy watching TV without this overflooding media hype about 9/11! My wife had here birthday 09-01- and I had mine at 09-10- and our wedding day was 09-09-09 So we have our trouble to enjoy these special days, because the media is flooded with this one topic all over.

Do you like to be slaves of the media? Would you think about the 9/11 so much if the media would not make it such a big topic? Yes, it is/was a realy tragic day. And many wrong decisions have been made by Bush, throwing out billions of dollar to the bigs, but at the end Bin Laden got killed by US special Soldiers. Ok. The Iran war has been planned in February of 2001, this 9/11 was a welcome event for Bush to initiat a new war which drove USA into the economy crisis at hand. So, I ask you, are you able and willing to think for yourself apart of the media influence? What about having a own mind differenciate and asking uneasy questions? Or do you still think bad of Muslims when you encounter one, thinking he / she could be a terrorist? Do you think all muslims are bad because of 9/11? Do you differentiate between the terrorists and the normal islam folk wo try to change their goverment system into a more democratic one?

Are we all slaves of the media???

I have to absorb such overblown, ridiculously created Media, in order to later mock it in my writing for Screenplays/Stories.

I must say, I have never been influenced by the Media at all however. I simply take in the news, properly research it, and laugh at their research skills.

I'm a New Yorker. It was horrific. My wish: honor the losses, but please stop the annual spectacle. There are many other things to tend to now.

It sounds like you might be a slave to the media. Turn off the TV and enjoy your special days.

I don't watch TV.

I like that! So many are slaves of the media... I just thought about it... did the Chernoby desaster stopped any country building new nuke power plants? Did any other than Germany changed their powerplant politics after the greate desaster of the powerplant side in Japan this year? Both have and will have more kills together than 9/11! But just think about: USA has been hit my some terrorists at 09/11 2001 and Bush attacs a country which never was any danger for USA and had nothing to do with Bin Laden... The aviation security has been leveled up sooo much worldwide... the impact seems to be so much more than any other event after the WW2... Just think about it... if the folk of china would start marching to the european direction or whereever, no one could stop them! They even have so much economy power over Europe and USA... if china sneeze, we all would be in big trouble!

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Well, I found some tv movies to watch, just ignoring the news on TV, because I dont like the media hype. Special programs about it everwhere all over the TV channels... hard to find any not related program... But because I got hit by migrane, I am not able to read a book or alike. Just have the TV running and lean back in our couch relaxing...

If this kind of thing happened in Canada I'm sure the media wouldn't be nearly so saturated with it as it is down in the States. It was terrible that it happened, but we've had disasters in the past such as the Halifax Harbor explosion that killed and injured thousands of people when a ship full of explosives caught fire. That was a long time ago, but if it it happened in the US there would probably be at least five TV movies about it by now. Right now I'm avoiding it as much as possible by not watching TV at all or very little, and besides TV is bad enough as it normally is and I have my computer and my games and hobbies to help me get through the day.

I'd say we're at the mercy of media & the various ways it twists and contorts reality.

In a way we are, but we have the option to turn them off. It is very difficult to find a source you can trust. People's agendas blur the truth, and it shows on the media.

There's a huge difference between an industrial accident and a terrorist attack. What happened on 9/11 was the intentional murder of thousands of innocent civilians by a group of religiously motivated hate mongers, who targeted them specifically because they were US citizens.

As a US citizen, I would be tremendously offended if those murders were to be ignored and forgotten as though they never happened and that has nothing to do with media coverage, which I'm not watching, but I understand why they would commemorate it, especially on a 10 year anniversary.

Orwell's book was a warning....not a blueprint.

To bring in some perspective...

I recently watched an interview with one of the 9/11 widows. Her husband was a firefighter that died in one of the towers. 9/11 was also their anniversary. They had been married for 8 years and they purposefully chose 9/11 to be their wedding date as a tribute to her husband's service. Now that anniversary date represents both the best and the worst day of her life.

So, if TV programming is one of your biggest concerns, consider yourself lucky. For many, honoring those who died is important. If it is not something that you find to be important, then turn off the TV and take your wife to dinner. Be thankful that such tragedy has not been a part of your life and enjoy your loved ones while you have them.

It is just that the media gets overflooded. I see no point in it. It is the 09-11- at which it happend and not all week around it! It is totaly ok to celebrate this day of tragedy and great loss. But why make money out of it selebrateing ig like xmess???

The media goes nuts over everything. The 24 hour news cycle has not done us any favors. I have over 200 channels on my cable subscription and there's very little worth watching. The selection seemed to be better when I was a kid and I had 12 channels.

At least it's not the latest political sex scandal, or Lindsay Lohan's court appearance. It could be worse. Just wait 'til silly season gets into high gear. It's going to be wall-to-wall election coverage for about 6 months. Seems to get worse every year. The best thing you can do is just turn it off.

Yes, for those who lost family members, they will always mourn. But the media takes an event and hypes it up so much that the mourning of the dead seems to get lost in all the media hype. I don't own a TV, and stuff like this is a big reason why.

I remember when 9/11 happened, the media pre-empted every piece of programming for WEEKS and just aired 9/11, the towers falling, the same horrible footage over and over and over. I remember talking to people who were much older and wiser than me who said they got 9/11 burnout after a couple days, but the media blared it NONSTOP for NINE DAYS without commercials IIRC!

And it's not just a big event like 9/11-when the Virginia Tech shooting happened, and NBC got a package of photos and letters from the gunman, suddenly every single channel went to nonstop Killer Madman Coverage for a full 24 hours, until enraged viewers flooded the telephones and internet emails of the networks screaming at them to stop. Later the media admitted that their coverage had become "pornographic". The FBI said that the killer's package did not shed any new light on his act.

It's almost like the media goes into a collective orgasm when bad stuff happens. I remember when the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake happened in the SF area, my freshman (high school) health class was talking about it, and some kid said "the media seem glad it happened". I've always kept that statement in mind-the media is happy to report on tragedy, and the government seems happy to shove through laws stripping us of freedoms afterward. Who can blame some people for thinking that every single event is orchestrated by a sinister government overlord council (Bilderberg, Trilateral, "Illuminati") for purposes we can only guess at?

But they have good hair, symetrical features, and can read from a teleprompter.

From what I can gather they are as shallow as their reporting. None of them do their own research, just read what is put before them.

Watchers turn into ad dollars, so I am waiting for 24 hour nude news.

Information is just another product to market, and often their "Reporting" is a how to for crime and terror.

I do not watch television, read the papers, and still hear more than I want to know about everything.

I do make a point of disagreeing about everything.

As Orwell and the USSR pointed out, news is a coverup, and after a while, no one takes their word about anything.

Alien Invasion, Pics at Six!

Blah blah blah. Yeah, I get the over-saturation, exploitation aspect of it. Lots of it is repetitive. But to even hint that something as unprecedented as the events of that day is overblown or hyped..is disgusting. Whenever some 5000 innocent people get obliterated, in the manner they did...sorry but any channel or radio station can go as long as they want in covering it.
You folks who choose not to stay informed, bragging about not having access to any media outlet etc...knock yourself out. If you can't trust anything you hear, good luck to you.