So because I think it’s inappropriate for a reporter to conduct interviews in the memorial, I must support the idea of a gift shop and I’m claiming free speech and freedom of the press is abhorrent? Your hyperbole and logical fallacies undermine your indignation.
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Reread what I wrote, there is absolutely no hyperbole whatsoever. I addressed the policy within the museum and you decided to take this as a personal attack. The ‘you’ is a generic term that refers to the operators of the museum, unless you are specifically setting the policies.
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I’m disappointed that she didn’t reply to the restriction on asking questions with “Why?”
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Asking a question about an incident that occurred then and there is not “conducting interviews” by my understanding of the term. The reporter didn’t go to the museum with the intent to question people, certainly.
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If watching a news event as it occurs is “gawking”, then your coming here to comment on it is gawking, too. I, for one, have had quite enough of grandstanders who use 9/11 to draw attention to their own self-righteousness.
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You’re right. In fact the Branson show has already been done: http://www.bransonshows.com/eventCalendar/911BransonRemembersinBransonMO.htm
And this one: http://www.branson.com/news/2011/09/08/a-tribute-to-the-american-spirit-remembering-911/
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I wonder if they would escort me out for chanting “USA USA USA!!!” with some drunken frat boys?
(C’mon bro, we jus love America an shit!)
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She went wearing a reporters hat, and identified her journalistic intent when she approached the people involved. She questioned the people involved because, ironically, she wanted to write a story about how people reacted to inappropriate behavior like talking on a cell phone in a solemn environment. Intent was formed the moment she opened her mouth, if not well before.
- Edited to correct the gender of the reporter; apologies for getting that wrong
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I agree with you, except (if the report is accurate) she stopped immediately upon being told to do so and it was only much later, long after she had continued on as a private citizen, that she was hauled out. That’s the part that troubles me.
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The fact that you assume the reporter was male tells me you didn’t read the article very carefully. You might have missed a few other nuances as well.
Well thankfully you’re here to help us all learn to grieve.
And you’re here to make sure we all see you do that.
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Yeah, I agree a museum is appropriate. I don’t get cries of “too soon”.
Exit through the gift shop, and be sure to take all your emotions on this subject out in. this. comment. forum.
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When you’re in the official memorial to the event that launched the security theater industry, you should expect the security theater staff present to bring their A Game.
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Again they act like they are hiding something …
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I unironically believe this. Interviews aren’t for museums/“memorials”. Ask them in the fucking tacky-ass gift shop.
I guess I’m sticking up for Big Museum and not the sanctity of 9/11.
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They probably shouldn’t have referred to their reporter credentials to justify their “unrelated” chatter, then.
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