Reacting to 9/11 coverage
I swam in the news coverage of 9/11 for the first few days, then took time off, then swam in it more... we've got this range of channels here on portland TV, 34-40 or so, where it's being covered all the time, and whenever I flip through it's just about overwhelming, and then I come to the idiots on FOX News who are saying all these awful things and it pushes me over the edge so I flip past to something silly. I think I'm emotionally "on schedule" so to speak but then I come across a pocket of coverage or opinions, somewhere on the tube or on the web or on a mailing list, and it's fresh all over again. So I don't know. It is odd to be in two places - to be affected deeply sometimes and not at all at other times... I'm at the third degree, which is pretty far - I know a couple of people who know people who know people who were injured or killed. It'd be different if I were closer, maybe? But maybe only in intensity...
Posted by Curt at October 18, 2001 12:34 AM