So. Who's watching Sydney?

Starsaber wrote:

TN4994 wrote:Really? I took it as something akin to "It's affirmative; for those who thought it couldn't happen here. It has."
Like here in the US. Several media outlet polls would have you believe every citizen remembers where they were and what they were doing on 9/11. Not me. I remember Kennedy's assassination, landing on the moon, and a few other events.
9/11? Just another event that didn't directly affect me. Heck, if it wasn't for emergency services in the US, I wouldn't remember the day.

I definitely remember where I was then, though it might be an artifact of some of the other things that happened around it, like a bird flying into the closed window of the classroom I was in 10 minutes or so after the principal made the announcement.

Rupert Murdoch is the direct spiritual descendant of William Randolph Hearst, who basically invented yellow journalism. There is considerable evidence that he was the person most responsible for the Spanish American War, as it was his papers that fixated most closely on the destruction of the USS Maine, to the extent of providing drawing showing the running of wires from the shore to a bomb planted under the ship, and effectively whipped up war fever in the US. Apparently he did this to drive up the circulation of his newspapers. Sound familiar?

R. Murdoch's twitter feed:

AUST gets wake-call with Sydney terror. Only Daily Telegraph caught the bloody outcome at 2.00 am. Congrats.

Wtf

fallsfromtrees wrote:Rupert Murdoch is the direct spiritual descendant of William Randolph Hearst, who basically invented yellow journalism. There is considerable evidence that he was the person most responsible for the Spanish American War, as it was his papers that fixated most closely on the destruction of the USS Maine, to the extent of providing drawing showing the running of wires from the shore to a bomb planted under the ship, and effectively whipped up war fever in the US. Apparently he did this to drive up the circulation of his newspapers. Sound familiar?

Hearst and Pulitzer if I remember correctly. And then Pulitzer got a conscience, just like Nobel did after inventing TNT, one of the deadliest inventions in human history.

Personally? I was5 days shy of my 13th birthday on 9/11 and I will never ever ever forget how I felt when I came home from school that afternoon and watched the towers fall.

Darman wrote:Personally? I was5 days shy of my 13th birthday on 9/11 and I will never ever ever forget how I felt when I came home from school that afternoon and watched the towers fall.

For some reason I woke up, it was like 1 or 2 in the morning and we had CNN on the TV. Just in time to see the second plane hit. Didn't get to sleep for the rest of the night.


Also remember where I was when Princess Di and John Lennon died.

Also things like the first Iraq war.

But I don't remember Sydney or Port Arthur. (I remember them, just not where I was)

Don't remember Queens Street but I do remember where I was 24 hours before. (On that floor of that building)

It's kind of weird which events of that nature we remember.

A few memories.
I was one of the very first people to watch that "One small step for man" as I had been invited by a friend into the Cooby Creek tracking station that by means of being in the southern hemisphere received the first broadcast. So I was several nanoseconds ahead of 99.99999% of the human race. Can confirm that it wasn't a Hollywood fake as I saw the dish lock in, then the signal come in from the direction of the moon.

Kennedy assassination - I was walking between dormitories at boarding school when a friend told me. Sad times for we of the young generation as he seemed to be the first non stodgy politician.

The Twin Towers (we say the day then the month so 11/9), I was in a medical clinic waiting room watching the silent TV thinking that they shouldn't be showing horror films while little kids can see them, then it turned out to be true.

Daryl wrote:A few memories.
I was one of the very first people to watch that "One small step for man" as I had been invited by a friend into the Cooby Creek tracking station that by means of being in the southern hemisphere received the first broadcast. So I was several nanoseconds ahead of 99.99999% of the human race. Can confirm that it wasn't a Hollywood fake as I saw the dish lock in, then the signal come in from the direction of the moon.

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Of course it was a Hollywood fake, they just had a satellite that was in the direction of the moon relay the signal . Never underestimate the stupidity of conspiracy theorists.