Sad but true

[Jay Lundy]

I also saw the footage of the Palestinian's celebrating. I was actually at school at the time and some other kids were in the room and it really got us angry to see them celebrating.

Anyway, I just want to say that I appreciate what the media has done for the citizens of the US in covering the events over the past week. Personally, I watched ABC the entire time and during the time I had the TV on from when I got home from school at 3 PM to when I went to bed at around 11 PM Peter Jennings was there reporting the news as it was happening; he hardly ever had a break. The media is working as hard as it can to provide us with non-stop updates and up to the minute live coverage. Another thing I noticed, NO COMMERCIALS. These companies have lost lots of money in ad revenue covering this for us.

As for the article that says CNN used videotapes from 10 years ago, how can you be sure they did? According to this article http://slate.msn.com/code/chatterbox...idMessage=8286 there was celebrating and it was filmed, but the film was agreed not to be shown. So what would the intelligent reporter do? Get footage of them celebrating from elsewhere and show it in its place. Also I am more likely to trust the credibility of CNN than a web site I have frankly never heard of before (which btw had several spelling mistakes.) If you read the comments posted below the article you'll notice the amount of evidence proving that it is very likely this footage is accurate.

In short, I say stop attacking the media and start acknoledging the incredible amount of time, effort, and money they have spent to cover this disaster.

Oh and one last thing, I'm not supporting CNN because I believe the Palestinians are evil and should be punished. I'm just acknoledging that it is possible some Palestinians could have been videotaped celebrating.