Ted Rall writes about the cheesification of 9/11.:
For one minute planes will not be permitted to take off or land. Given that Logan’s crappy security allowed two of the four planes to be hijacked in the first place, one might expect the Massachusetts Port Authority to come up with a more appropriate sign of respect for the victims—say, hiring people smarter than stones to scan baggage correctly. But no. A runway of briefly stalled planes will have to do. [&hellip]
In some ways, the MetaFilter comments are even more poignant:
This is one of those times when dewy montages accompanied by “touching music” just make my stomach turn. All I can imagine is a room full of video editors sitting at their consoles while some choad with a clipboard instructs them on when to swell the strings and freeze on the image of the teddy bear for maximum impact.
I can’t comprehend how that must make people’s families feel— to have their pain re-packaged and sold back to them as a “tribute.” Completely repulsive.
Yeah, that’s about right.