Rebrites quote:
"Yeah, lots of Americans are overly sensitive to "icky." But I think in this case the natural revulsion and fascination humans have with death and corpses is multiplied by the meaninglessness of the violence...And the fact that these victims were mostly white, middle-class commuters who look and act lots like us --not black Africans or Arabs or "those foreigners."
Were they mostly white? The pictures i saw and the interviews on Antena 3 showed a lot of South Americans and North Africans, just like September 11th killed more than 2000 people of all racial ethnic and national groups. ANYWAY, Moving beyond the color of the victims (another flaw, I beleive, in American journalism is this obsession with racializing everything in the media), its that the attack was in Western Europe, now viewed as modern and fast-paced by the Americas (both North and South) that made it so horrible. 9-11 was the same horrible for me as a new yorker and an adopted madrilena on 11-M..
I have occassionally written newspaper articles myself and while I was never forced to write about current events (i was more of a cultural or political issues writer) I would probably have asked before using a photo of someone's hand, but yes, i would have used it to show the barbarie of terrorism...people must be confronted with it or they will continue sleeping in dreamworlds where terrorism does not exist and IGNORE it, which is what the US did for years and did you see what happenned on 9-11. A rude awakening for those politicians and ignorant folk who had been sleeping. And it could not have been more tragic. Violent death is extremely dehumanizing and I feel sorry for those families who had to bury their loved ones in pieces. Some pieces from september 11 are STILL MISSING.
Madrid, Nueva york esta contigo!
Kat
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