― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 16 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Kerry, Sunday, 16 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Billy Dods, Sunday, 16 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Pennysong Hanle y, Sunday, 16 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Frank Kogan, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
At least CNN this morning were covering the latest stories - the Pakistan delegation's mission to the Taliban, CIA admitting it will employ "unsavoury characters" and try and get the ban on political assassinations lifted.
Perhaps the Beeb's top brass are trying to make up for their Question Time embarrassment. Another example - that Panorama programme last night, supposedly a straight piece on bin Laden (mostly rehashed from 1998 in the event), but they just had to intercut his story with the most dramatic and distressing clips and interviews from Tuesday, didn't they? Thus leaving the viewer in no doubt who was "responsible" for the attack, when even GW will only admit bin Laden is only "a prime suspect". Sadly, this sort of thing is par for the course for Panorama these days.
The only interesting thing to come out of it was the observation from one of bin Laden's contemporaries that the oft-repeated images of the planes impacting with the WTC and the towers crumbling were having the effect of impressing upon the Arab world that the US is vulnerable and can be defeated, as the Soviets were in Afghanistan.
― Jeff, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― DG, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
I don't think I want it to be true, but I'm as susceptible as anyone else to conspiracy theories, not least because they're interesting. I think one of my faults is possibly that I put being interesting ahead of being right. I am, of course, free to do this because I have no power.
I'm an artist, an entertainer, not a politician or academic or company employee. I'm expected to be stimulating, amusing, thought-provoking, even subversive and disloyal, but not necessarily right. Actually, that's what a Momus is, in the original definition: a carping, cavilling critic. Now, some people (a few have been signing my website guestbook with comments not far removed from 'go home, commie fink') think that in times of crisis critics should belt up and buckle down. I think the opposite. I think it's precisely now that we need to brainstorm, not desert storm.
― Momus, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Pennysong Hanle y, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
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