The Media Has A Problem Covering 9/11

[txradioguy]

The New York Times began its 9/11 coverage this year with an avian appeal. The 9/11 tribute lights, they claim, are putting 160,000 birds at risk every year.

Apparently the “Tribute in Light” — two columns created by 88 searchlights — is affecting the migratory patterns of our winged friends.

That is, unless you read the article. The headline’s claim is debunked about halfway in: “But according to radar studies … the 20-minute breaks are enough to allow birds to resume their migration.”

This isn’t the first year they’ve done it, but the articles are getting longer and the shrieks are becoming shriller: “Won’t somebody PLEASE think of the yellow warblers?!”

The peregrine falcon focus is scarcely the worst of the Gray Lady’s misdeeds when it comes to the anniversary of the deadliest terror attack on American soil.

On the morning of Sept. 11, 2019, the Times published a tweet that read: “18 years have passed since airplanes took aim and brought down the World Trade Center. Today, families will once again gather and grieve at the site where more than 2000 people died.”

There were 2,977 victims who died on 9/11, and over 6,000 were injured. Additional lives have been lost since that day as a result of related issues, but the Times originally saw no problem with rounding way down in its estimations of those killed.

Worse still is the implication that “airplanes took aim.”

Imagine a right-wing website marking the far less deadly Charlottesville attack with a tweet that read, “A car took aim at Heather Heyer.”

No, a car didn’t take aim. A frenzied neo-Nazi did.

No planes “took aim” on 9/11. Frenzied Islamic terrorists did.

The Times was forced to back down, issuing a tweet that reads: “We’ve deleted an earlier tweet to this story and have edited for clarity. The story has also been updated.” The changes made to the story are unlisted, and the New York Times has not responded to my request for clarity at the time of publication.

The paper also saw fit to publish an opinion-editorial by Omer Aziz, about how hard 9/11 made it to be a Muslim.

“I’m still mourning the life I lived before I learned that I was different,” said the sub-headline.

Forgive me if I refuse to shed a tear. The rest of us use this day to remember those who actually lost real lives or those of loved ones.

And never forgetting doesn’t just mean never forgetting the incident, or the dead, or their families. It also means never forgetting the fascist and barbaric ideology that contributed to those deaths.

https://dailycaller.com/2019/09/11/kassam-meda-911/

[Cyber Liberty]

The paper also saw fit to publish an opinion-editorial by Omer Aziz, about how hard 9/11 made it to be a Muslim.

I'll see your "hard time" and raise you another "hard time."

[Fishrrman]

Title and premise:
"The Media Has A Problem Covering 9/11"

The Media has had "a problem" covering 9/11 since the morning of September 11, 2001. But they couldn't hide the truth on that day.

They've been trying to bury it ever since.

[Wingnut]

I'll see your "hard time" and raise you another "hard time."

To CNN that is a migratory bird.

[txradioguy]

To CNN that is a migratory bird.

18 years after 9/11 CNN pretends like what happened in that picture never happened.

[Smokin Joe]

If they are worried about migratory birds, where are the rants about windmills?

Nonsense. They want America to forget, to ignore what happened as little as the last news cycle ago. That way they can control the prevailing attitudes on a whim.

Eff 'em. There is no feeling like calling family and asking if everyone is on the ground today, in one piece and okay.

I am sure it was orders of magnitude worse for those who knew their loved ones were in harm's way, and yet again worse for those on the planes and in the Pentagon and the Twin Towers.

The media forget we can remember the Alamo, The Maine, Pearl Harbor, etc. Remembering 9/11 is all too easy.