Why have the attacks in London, suddenly become about New York?!
Why have the attacks in London, suddenly become about New York?!
ConvinceMe2
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/7/05
#0Why have the attacks in London, suddenly become about New York?!
Posted: 7/7/05 at 12:37pmUgh!
#1re: Why have the attacks in London, suddenly become about New York?!
Posted: 7/7/05 at 12:39pm
Who's making them about New York? I'm still worried about the people there, especially as it seems the death/injured toll keeps getting revised up.
ConvinceMe2
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/7/05
#2re: Why have the attacks in London, suddenly become about New York?!
Posted: 7/7/05 at 12:39pmTurn on the news.
#3re: Why have the attacks in London, suddenly become about New York?!
Posted: 7/7/05 at 12:41pm
Because 9/11 happened here, and it could happen again, and people here are still terrified.
I for one am just annoyed that they have to keep talking and interrupting my stories.
#4re: Why have the attacks in London, suddenly become about New York?!
Posted: 7/7/05 at 12:41pm
Oh. Well, that just goes to show you.
Every news station in the US constantly takes a tragedy and instantly turns it into a "Could it happen here?" bit of sensationalism.
#5re: Why have the attacks in London, suddenly become about New York?!
Posted: 7/7/05 at 12:41pm
Yeah! CNN cut off an official in London to speak with NYC's govenor. Then CNN cuts off the NYC mayor to speak with former NYC mayor Guliani (sp?) who IS IN LONDON.
How ironic - and he was a block away from the first attack. This guy should have his own color!
--Aristotle
#6re: Why have the attacks in London, suddenly become about New York?!
Posted: 7/7/05 at 12:42pmI'm sure a lot of British "Stories" were interrupted when we were having our crisis on 9/11. I would try to show some compassion.
#7re: Why have the attacks in London, suddenly become about New York?!
Posted: 7/7/05 at 12:42pmMe too Rath! I totally bought a new tub of bon bons and was cuddling up for some Y&R. The nerve!
#8re: Why have the attacks in London, suddenly become about New York?!
Posted: 7/7/05 at 12:42pmI'm sure a lot of British "Stories" were interrupted when we were having our crisis on 9/11. I would try to show some compassion.
#9re: Why have the attacks in London, suddenly become about New York?!
Posted: 7/7/05 at 12:43pmChiChi - lighten up.
ConvinceMe2
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/7/05
#10re: Why have the attacks in London, suddenly become about New York?!
Posted: 7/7/05 at 12:44pmCompassion to the news media interrupting Rath's stories?
#11re: Why have the attacks in London, suddenly become about New York?!
Posted: 7/7/05 at 12:45pm
rath, i'll save you some time dear. luke really is laura's father - not her husband. her son, however, once dated her daughter from another marriage but i'm getting ahead of myself. leslie is not really dead, and rick just came back to the show for the money. and amy's evil twin, aimee, really isn't an evil twin at all. she's just in a REALLY bad mood.
there, now, you can go about your life again.
PED
#12re: Why have the attacks in London, suddenly become about New York?!
Posted: 7/7/05 at 12:45pmNo...compassion to what is going on.
#13re: Why have the attacks in London, suddenly become about New York?!
Posted: 7/7/05 at 12:45pmSeriously. Compassion to Sue Simmons for looking like a chipmunk in search of a Daytime Emmy?
#14re: Why have the attacks in London, suddenly become about New York?!
Posted: 7/7/05 at 12:46pmRelating a story to your local market is a fairly basic journalistic technique. 'How does a terrorist attack in London affect Americans' is a basic question American journalists should be answering in their coverage over here.
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#15re: Why have the attacks in London, suddenly become about New York?!
Posted: 7/7/05 at 12:46pm
Ya gotta be extra careful when bringing up these kinds of ideas, ConvinceMe2. What you describe is the LARGER cultural version of what I mentioned in one of the other threads about the bombing, which is the tendency to make tragedies that happen to other people all about us. Man, it got hairy in the other thread for a while.
But I know exactly what you mean. I am sure Governor Pataki didn't mean to sound so callous when he addressed the public and said, "Yes" (almost impatiently), "we feel terrible about what happened in London. BUT, get on a subway, go to the park..." all the same "we are BIG AMERICAN COWBOYS and WE ARE RUGGED INDIVIDUALS and WE WILL DEFIANTLY... blah blah blahhhh..." Alas, it's our cultural condition.
I actually just heard the district attorney who prosecuted Richard "The Shoe Bomber" Reed say, "Obviously Al Quaida has hit us again." What mean "us" Bostonian?
#16re: Why have the attacks in London, suddenly become about New York?!
Posted: 7/7/05 at 12:47pm
Attacking the US right now would diminish Al Queda's message. It was in retaliation for the troops yes, but the world is focused on England right now and the G8 summit happening there. If I were Al Queda I'd be waiting to attack the US at a different time. Especially since the US is now on alert. I don't think we have worry about an attack right now, (but it's a lot easier saying that out here in the Midwest where I am far away from major US targets.) I always love how we make everything about us. Why can't we focus on other people and their suffering without turning it around to us? Why must journalists relate it to our home before we care? It boggles my mind.
#17re: Why have the attacks in London, suddenly become about New York?!
Posted: 7/7/05 at 12:51pmIsn't Bush in Scotland right now?
--Aristotle
#18re: Why have the attacks in London, suddenly become about New York?!
Posted: 7/7/05 at 12:53pm
I remember getting very pissed off after 9/11 when people from other cities would say "We were ALL New Yorkers that day."
I wated to scream at them and say "No, you were the F*CK not! Did you walk through putrid smoke and raining soot? Did you run? Did you smell burning flesh for weeks after? No you were NOT New Yorkers that day. WE were!"
But I didn't. I just said thank you.
So you're right. Today is not about New York or America. Today is about London.
Tomorrow is about terrorism.
#19re: Why have the attacks in London, suddenly become about New York?!
Posted: 7/7/05 at 12:54pmCM2, don't you know by now that New York IS the center of the universe and all things revolve around it.
#20re: Why have the attacks in London, suddenly become about New York?!
Posted: 7/7/05 at 12:55pm
^^^ That actually IS true, NYC being the center of the universe.
I'm not saying that because I live here, either.
ConvinceMe2
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/7/05
#21re: Why have the attacks in London, suddenly become about New York?!
Posted: 7/7/05 at 12:57pm
Relating a story to your local market is a fairly basic journalistic technique. 'How does a terrorist attack in London affect Americans' is a basic question American journalists should be answering in their coverage over here.
I agree with that; but it wasn't about America, it was all about New York. There are subways in Boston and Philadelphia, and other places, as well. Didn't hear anything about them.
#22re: Why have the attacks in London, suddenly become about New York?!
Posted: 7/7/05 at 12:58pm
(but it's a lot easier saying that out here in the Midwest where I am far away from major US targets.)
Depends on where in the Midwest you live. I live about a mile away from one of the most important Air Force bases in the country. Being a civilian, I don't know exactly why the base is so important, but I do know Pres. Bush made a stop here on 9/11.
nmartin
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/3/05
#23re: Why have the attacks in London, suddenly become about New York?!
Posted: 7/7/05 at 1:13pmMama Rose said, "New York is the center of New York." How right she was.
#24re: Why have the attacks in London, suddenly become about New York?!
Posted: 7/7/05 at 1:17pm
am i the only one who thought after hearing about the london bombings, "is it going to happen here again?" like johnpopa said, it is a standard journalism practice to make the news relevant to viewers/readers in their market. "yes, we are concerned about london, but what about us?" is a very common thought today i am sure. it doesn't belittle the tragedy there, but like etoile said in this or another thread, maybe it makes people a bit more alert as to their surroundings/events to report strange occurrences.
as far as relating it to new york. well, that was the last time a major terrorist attack took place so the parallels are going to be drawn. it is inevitable.
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