Your Thoughts on the Today Show and 9/11? - Youngstown,OH

My thought? I am so glad I don't watch that stuff. REALLY? I mean, I don't revel in 9/11, but ugh. Who was sniffing glue when they made that choice? Kardashian-anything just makes me itch.

Gosh, I wish I could move on without feeling guilty. I will ALWAYS remember sitting in front of the TV when the planes took those buildings down. I will remember that moment and that day. Every single detail. However, I feel like I not allowed to live my life without stopping one day a year. I don't want my "remembrance" to be more like a hostage situation, from television programs. Eventually, we NEED to stop requiring people to relive this every year. There is remembering, and there is requiring us to rip open the wound yearly. It has been over a DECADE.

I don't care what television stations air. I have the right to not watch.

If you're ticked off, I'd write a letter to the show. I often do when I'm annoyed at something, or when I really like something. One letter might not make a difference, but if they get a lot, they do pay attention. The market drives the networks.

Okay, maybe it's because I was brought up in a different place and with a different background. I'm from Oklahoma City. I was in the 4th grade when the Murrah building was bombed in downtown OKC. Our school was only a few miles from there and we heard the explosion and our windows shook. None of us knew what it was. The boys in our class got so excited because they thought it was a sonic boom. Needless to say, after school, our parents told us about the bombing. From the 1st anniversary to the time I graduated high school (1996 - 2003) we did 168 seconds of silence for the victims (one second for each victim) at 9:02 am (the time the bomb went off). I know that most Oklahoma schools still do so to this day. So to me, for such a horrendous tragedy, it is a form of respect for the victims and heroes of that awful day. If you don't want to participate, that's your choice, but don't expect me to think very highly of you.

The Today Show is it's own 'entity' (company, corporation, however you want to refer to it.) It is their own decision to skip the moment of silence. I, as a consumer, have an equal choice of whether to support people/entities that has conflicting ideologies from mine. In that manner, the free market is alive and works well. The moment I or any other state or non-state entitiy decides to dictate what they must do is the moment we have all lost a bit more of our freedom.

I haven't read any responses yet-but here's my thoughts:
I tihnk the nationally televised 2 hour "reading of the names" needed to have stopped with the 10th anniversary of the attacks. If not then, when? We need to let these families move on from the incredible sadness of that date. When we keep obligating them to spend the entire morning remembering every detail right there where it happened, I do not think this is therapeutic or helpful in any way. If that is how they CHOOSE to remember, it should be allowed to be somewhat private.
I am not cold or calloused about what happened; indeed, I will never forgot where I was the exact moment I found out. But there comes a time in every national tragedy, that the memoriam of the event needs to be subdued as we remember and pray, and move forward. We don't do this on Dec 7 for the thousands who died at Pearl Harbor....
I don't think the Today Show did anything wrong.

Honestly I feel it is rude. I even took 2 min. out of my morning schedule(which is hectic to say the least) to lower our house flag to half mast and give a min. of silence. I do it every year out of courtesy. Mind you I was 11 when it happened. That is 11 years of paying respect and I wouldn't change it for the world!

I changed my FB profile pic for the day, the same way I change it to a poppy on Veteran's and Memorial Day. I do it for myself and not for anyone else. I don't watch regular news or shows anymore because its all misleading and sometimes borders that of tabloid stuff and those things are only fun sometimes to smirk at while waiting for the mom ahead of me with her screaming 5 kids to get her stuff out of the way and pay... oh wait, that's me...

My thoughts: If they couldn't air the show the way they wanted, the people who died that day and the soldiers to who die around the world for freedom would have died for nothing. I think on a marketing standpoint, it was a poor choice on their behalf. And consequently, you have the right to be disgusted and voice your concern.

Freedom, we salute you.

I haven't heard about it. I don't have cable. However, if someone watching The Today Show wanted to have a moment of silence there is always the off button or the mute button.

I did not see it, but we can't expect everyone everywhere to have a moment of silence. It's just not reality. It was a horrible day, and a horrible thing to happen to the people it happened to, and their families. I would have turned it off anyway, not sure what the thrill of the Kardashian's is anyway.

I thought the Today Show was an entertainment show, do they still do news?

I was in Midtown that day - my husband and I both worked in NYC. We saw the smoke coming from the first tower plane hit as we commuted into the city. I was walking through Times Square on my way to my husband's office (they evacuated my building because it was near the Port Authority bus station) and saw one of the towers collapse on the giant jumbotron TV's. We walked to the train station through the streets of NYC, deserted of cars and eerily quiet - no traffic or jet noise. My city was like a small town for months after that - it was amazing. I love NYC and still do to this day. I will always feel strongly connected to it.

Luckily, I did not lose anyone, and the people I worked with did not lose anyone. The company I worked for was directly involved in the supervision of the clean-up of the site so some of my co-workers worked on-site throughout the following year. I carry an ID card that I got from a job interview I had in Tower 2, dated January 2001. I found it 3 months later and could only thank God that I didn't get the job. It would have been on the 50th floor.

I honor and remember 9/11, but I do not wallow in it every year and it kinda bugs me, actually that it's just dredged up over and over and over and over. I hate it when it's used as a political tool.

I don't think any worse of people who don't stop what they're doing every year. They just need to respect others that chose to honor it. The Today show is an entertainment show, so I don't care what they did. I don't watch them anyway.

Okay, they did WHAT!? I missed it, but WOW. I don't want that channel as it is, but I will never watch it. That is a gross representation of Americans and probably the worst stunt a "news" show has ever pulled.

And why in the world should we not have a moment of remembrance for the victims and those who have fought since then? That comment makes me ill. Maybe you didn't lose someone or haven't seen the effects of those coming home from war to protect our freedoms, but really!

Hi! I have been struggling with the Today Show for a long time. I've been watching for a long, long time (I'm 56) and I know I should have stopped watching a long time before I did. If you ask me now I will tell you I watch CBS but I still can't resist some channel surfing--- and that is where I was when they went to the President's moment of silence- and then they cut away!!!! I swear I thought it was an error on the control room's part, I couldn't believe they could be so disrespectful to their viewers that were sharing that moment. It only confirms what I've known for a while- time to move on. And I really, for the most part, have gone to CBS. Try it, the quality and quantity of their news is a breath of fresh air.
Now, if only someone could convince me that all that frivolity is not a blatant attempt at ignoring the issues--- Jessica Simpson's weight vs Darfur-America Idol (why give another network free advertising) vs hydrofracking- Kardashian boyfriends vs Kardashian sweat shops...

I agree - they have become a morning version of Entertainment Tonight! I have to wonder if they didn't do anything so that they could avoid having any footage of Katie Curic on there since she and Matt covered 9/11 live on the Today Show. I'm not a huge fan of Katie these days but it could be related. Where do we send NBC a nastygram?

I don't live my life by the choices of NBC or the today show.
So it makes no never mind to me what they chose/chose not to do.
The are a business and are free to chiose their programming as they see fit.

I don't watch this show so I can't really boycott it. Think about it from a marketing class exercise in which you have to guess who their target market is. First, the guest they chose. Then the timing of airing it. It would be much less offensive to have any other guest except a few (including the rest of the jenner/kardashian family) to most people. Trash TV for Trash People (sorry don't know the pc term). Seriously that must be what they are going for. Would be interesting to note what products where marketed during this show/segment. It IS their right to do whatever they want and there must be money in it. Otherwise someone has some explaining to do and possibly a job to lose.

In otherwords, I don't think they thought about the day at all, Someone was thinking about viewership and may have missed the boat.

I personally am not affected by whether or not a TV show takes a moment of silence. I spoke to my daughter and a friend briefly about the heroism shown that day as we drove by a memorial for one of the flight 93 heros. We live in the same town as the company headquarters for one of the brave men and women on that filght and I happened to have driven by there on 9/11 for the past several years. For me it happens naturally. That means more to me and is more personal to me than the Today Show's guest list. Those that do watch the show and want to see something different should shoot them an email from their website.

I don't watch the Today show so I didn't know they skipped it...

just shows their priorities....if that's what they did...you can chose to change the channel...like I said - I don't watch it...so no skin off my nose.

I think the Today Show has become increasingly tabloid-y and devoid of real news or interest.

I'm switching to CBS. Their morning show actually has substance.

I'm honestly just really surprised that 11 years later we are still having remembrances. I think it's one thing for the families to want to do something. Personally, I would not. At this point, I would be focused on the future.

I don't visit cemeteries or remember loved ones on any particular date. As life happens there are times when I remember someone and I allow myself to feel whatever I need to feel in that moment. But I do not make a point of remember anyone who has past on a specific date or time.

It's time to move forward.

Also, I respect Ann Curry as a reporter, but I've never liked her has a host, even when she was filling in for someone. Savannah Guthrie is fine but not much better. I really liked the excitement and energy Katie Curic and Meridith Vierra had. Just me.

It was certainly in poor taste on their part. If they did not intend to cut away to the service, they should have at least had a guest that was somewhat on-topic. Kris Jenner is a train wreck and having her sit there and discuss her boob job was just not right.

A boycott? Seriously? I don't care. The program is not publicly run. They're not run by a vote of the viewers. The fact is that they get to program it however they choose. The rest of their coverage was fine.

It's up to the individuals aka us to have a moment of silence if we so choose to have one. You wanted a moment of silence during the Today Show? Then shut the TV off during the show and light a candle. Get your moment of silence that way.

I decided to get my moment of silence at my own time in my own way, not dictated by the television. I don't have time or the inclination to be upset nor outraged over something so idiotic and non-newsworthy.

And for the record, as bothered as I was over the firing of Ann Curry... as non-receptive as I was about Savannah taking over... I have to say that NBC called it correctly on that one. I hate saying that. But the team has their bouncy easygoing groove back that they had when Meredith was there. It's not worth holding a grudge over.

I don't usually watch those programs because my schedule doesn't allow it, but if I was to start, I would skip Today because I find it apalling that they would choose anything over the 911 tribute, and especially anything Kardashian and breast jobs. Sad............

I think it was completely insensitive. IF I had ever watched it, I wouldn't any more.

I quit watching a LOOOOONG time ago. I have zero respect for any of them. Their ratings are in the tank for a reason. No surprise, at all!

I didn't see it & it sounds really awful. But, honestly, it doesn't surprise me. Look at what drivel a large portion of our American population considers valuable or "entertainment". The Today Show may have been disrespectful, but they're only giving a large portion of the viewers what they want.