Flight 93

[GAsux]

Anyone catch the Discovery Channel piece last night on Flight 93? It was creepy. They used a lot of the cockpit audio and taped phone calls from the plane.

It's one thing to hear the story or read the recording transcripts but it's a whole different animal to hear their voices as it's happening. It was creepy.

[Face in the box]

I saw the advertisements for it, but refused to play into that propoganda on prade bull shit I am tored of having this medias shit crammed down my throught.

[Cybernetico]

Originally Posted by Face in the box

I saw the advertisements for it, but refused to play into that propoganda on prade bull shit I am tored of having this medias shit crammed down my throught.

Yeah, its the whole 9/11 plane thing, right? Where the passengers try to fight the terrorists away?

Its amazing, not even 5 years and they're turning fiction into fact so easily.

[Cosmo Electrolux]

Welcome to Bush's america....please check truth and reality at the door. Oh, and turn your watch back 25 years......

[GAsux]

Weird. I didn't think i was propaghanda-ish at all. I guess I didn't realize the Discovery Channel was some deeply intertwined with the Bush Administration.

[Cosmo Electrolux]

Oh, but it is.....everyone knows that the discovery channel is a tool of the republican party.

The point I was trying to make is that we'll probably never know the truth of what happened that day, as the current administration is quite adept at burying anything that is evern remotely critical, or especially damning. We'll never know the truth. Roll with that.....

[GAsux]

I suppose that's probably true. But that doesn't have much to do with the Discovery channel program. It was basically about the surviving family members and included a re-enactment based on the phone calls from the plane, cockpit voice recorder, etc.

[WorthlessLiar]

It's propaganda because it highlights an incident depicting Americans (and therefore America) in the most vigilant and heroic manner possible given the few bits of information available. While the people on that flight were certainly heroic, 9/11 was still a day America got spanked with its pants down. The makers of this docudrama want to give us something to feel good about from that day. We didn't win any victories against terrorists on 9/11 and there's nothing to show we're winning the war on terror now. We can fantasize about kicking terrorist ass all we want but it's not helping.

[KevinTheOmnivore]

Yawn?

[VinceZeb]

Originally Posted by Cosmo Electrolux

Welcome to Bush's america....please check truth and reality at the door. Oh, and turn your watch back 25 years......

What color is the sky in your world?

[GAsux]

See here's the thing about that. I actually watched it. You know, like saw it? I guess if you're sensitive to the subject and looking for another way to vent you anger at the "man" you can dismiss it as propaghanda.

There was no mention of kicking any terrorist ass. It essentially focused on the actions of the people on the plane based upon the phone calls and voice recorders. I don't recall them ever saying or implying that terrorists are clearly being defeated because they crashed the plane, etc.

Basically it was told from the family members point of view and to be honest I thought it was pretty moving to listen to the phone calls of people calling their families to say goodbye in essence. I could give two fucks about the politics of it.