What's with these fascist NYC censor types? First EBay, now CBS. Some N'Yorkahs just need killing.
--- http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020228/tv_nm/documentary_1 CBS urged not to show graphic footage in 9/11 film Wed Feb 27, 8:54 PM ET HACKENSACK, N.J. (Reuters) - The CBS television network was urged Wednesday not to show graphic footage of the World Trade Center attacks in a documentary it plans to air next month. "Any media event that indiscriminately broadcasts the graphic horrors of that day will disrupt the healing process," said a letter to CBS from Bergen County prosecutor William Schmidt, head of an advisory board for victims' families. Schmidt, writing on behalf of the American Red Cross, United Way and other groups assisting victims' families in Bergen County since the attacks, also asked CBS to air the program at a later date instead of March 10, almost the six-month anniversary of the attacks. "While we do not object to the showing of the documentary, we are particularly concerned about the potentially negative psychological effects that graphic details of death and destruction may have on the thousands of individuals who have been traumatized by the events of September 11th," Schmidt said in the letter. Some of the nearly 3,000 victims of the World Trade Center attack lived in Bergen County across the Hudson River from Manhattan. Gil Schwartz, CBS spokesman in New York, said he had not received the letter and would respond when he did. But he defended the two-hour film as "responsible and sensitive" and said there was no footage of people being killed. He said rumors of such footage were the result of "misinformation" and "misapprehension." French brothers Gedeon and Jules Naudet, the filmmakers, were recording firefighters' training exercises about 14 blocks from the Trade Center when the attacks began. They kept their cameras running and recorded the planes' approaches to the twin towers and scenes inside the buildings of rescues and escaping workers.
