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...victim, and it will be placed in a coffin because it is a human being, or at least part of a human being, and human beings bury their dead. So instead of using backhoes and bulldozers to clear the remnants of the World Trade Center, hundreds of men scoop out the remains with their hands. They put them in 5-gal. buckets and pass them hand to hand down a 200-ft. line before they are emptied in piles in front of an investigator, who sifts through them. The workers will do this for 10- and 12- and 18-hour...
After etching the image of the Trade Center in our minds, be it from the constantly replayed clip on TV or the cover of every periodical, the press had a different agenda. The race for the scoop began; the need to explain the enormity of what we all were experiencing with reasons and facts...
...scoop is war, bombs and vengeance. The media has spun its cycle of terror and news services are racing to find people to blame. Lists of the dead and missing have appeared in smaller and smaller fonts in newspapers, and TV stations have ceased showing the planes flying into the World Trade Center...
...just because the pursuit of the scoop has pushed the news cycle forward, the enormity of the tragedy is nowhere near processed or mourned. The deceit of news is its relentless disregard for what is past. But don’t let the headlines that cry for war rather than scream of horror delude you that life will ever be the same. The process of mourning has just begun, even if the news has moved...
...seemed really unsanitary before,” Kacker said. “People would just scoop the cereal out with their hands sometimes. It was pretty disgusting...