RE: Sept. 11th media overkill

[ltrwritr@moscow.com (Mark Rounds)]

Hi Folks

There will be those who choose to try to make political or commercial gains
based on what happened an year ago and what people feel today.  Its their
choice.  

However you choose to sped today, it would be a good thing to take a moment
and remember what you were doing a year ago today, how you have changed and
how we as a nation have changed.  Keep those who have suffered loss due to
the events of a year ago in your hearts and prayers.

Remember that the heroes of 9/11 were ordinary men and women put in
extraordinary situations and in their hearts found the courage and strength
to do what needed to be done.  It is an inspiration to us all.

Mark Rounds

At 02:19 PM 9/10/2002 -0700, Dena Marchant wrote:
>Carl,
>
>I don't have a tv to turn on.  But the programming/marketing
>in the days leading up to the September 11 anniversary is
>inescapable, even without one.  I hear they've come out with
>a new book "Chicken Soup for the Soul of America."  If the
>coverage is chicken soup, it's canned soup with very little
>chicken -- factory farmed -- made on an assembly line manned
>by undocumented workers with no health coverage and no job
>security.  It fails to provide nourishment even to those who
>profit from it.
>
>Given the pervasiveness of marketing's influence on our culture
>what else could we expect?
>
>Dena
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Carl Westberg [mailto:carlwestberg846@hotmail.com]
>Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 7:15 AM
>To: vision2020@moscow.com
>Subject: Sept. 11th media overkill
>
>
>
>
>Anyone else hesitant to turn on the television for the next couple of days?
>I didn't even watch Monday Night Football last night, which is somewhat
>heretical for me.  I don't need to see some Madison Avenue driven patriotic
>message telling me how horrible it all was, what great heroes have emerged
>from the aftermath, and, oh incidentally, real heroes drink Coke.  And how
>many times will they subject the viewer to the planes smashing into the
>towers?  Maybe it'll be safe by Thursday.
>
>                           Carl Westberg Jr.
>
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