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Senator Mark Dayton: "What is it compelling us now to make a precipitous decision and take precipitous actions?"
Former CIA analyst Kenneth Pollack got enormous media exposure in late 2002 for his book "The Threatening Storm: The Case for Invading Iraq." Pollack’s book promotion tour often seemed more like a war promotion tour. During a typical CNN appearance, Pollack explained why he had come to see a "massive invasion" of Iraq as both desirable and practical: "The real difference was the change from September 11th. The sense that after September 11th, the American people were now willing to make sacrifices to prevent threats from abroad from coming home to visit us here made it possible to think about a big invasion force."
Middle East correspondent Robert Fisk, with the London-based Independent newspaper, was on the mark when he wrote: "Iraq had absolutely nothing to do with 11 September. If the United States invades Iraq, we should remember that."
One of the great media cliches of the last two years is that 9/11 "changed everything." The portentous idea soon became a truism for news outlets nationwide. But the shock of September 11 could not endure. And the events of that horrific day — while abruptly tilting the political landscape and media discourse — did not transform the lives of most Americans. Despite all the genuine anguish and the overwhelming news coverage, daily life gradually went back to an approximation of normal.
During the last months of 2001, many media powerhouses heralded the arrival of humanistic values for the country. Typically, the December issue of O — "The Oprah Magazine" — was largely devoted to the cover story "We Are Family." In the lead-off essay, Oprah Winfrey served up a heaping portion of sweet pabulum. "Our vision of family has been expanded," she wrote. "From the ashes of the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and that field in Pennsylvania arose a new spirit of unity. We realize that we are all part of the family of America." Later in the glossy, ad-filled magazine, the "We Are Family" headline reappeared under Old Glory and over another message from Oprah, who declared: "America is a vast and complicated family, but — as the smoke clears and the dust settles — a family nonetheless."
From the vantage point of the present day, the late-2001 claims about a new national altruism invite disbelief if not derision. No amount of media spin about "the family of America" can negate the fact that gaps between wealth and poverty have never been wider. What kind of affluent family would leave so many of its members in desperate need?
Recent news about Halliburton and Bechtel cashing in on the occupation of Iraq is a counterpoint to revelations that the White House strongly pressured the Environmental Protection Agency in the days after 9/11 to mislead the public about dangers of airborne toxic particles from World Trade Center debris. The EPA’s Office of the Inspector General reported last month that "the desire to reopen Wall Street" was a major factor in the Bush administration’s misleading assurances. Although the public was told that everything had changed, powerful elites gave the highest priority to resuming business as usual.
In tandem with the message that September 11 "changed everything" came an emboldened insistence on the U.S. prerogative to attack other countries at will. In a bait-and-switch operation that took hold in autumn 2001, emblems of 9/11 soon underwent double exposure with prevailing political agendas.
Network correspondents routinely joined in upbeat assessments of the U.S.-led assault on Afghanistan that took the lives of at least as many blameless civilians as 9/11 did. Later, the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, which overthrew a regime in Baghdad with no links to the September 11 hijackings or Al Qaeda, took more civilian lives than 9/11 did. For the United States, moral reflection could not hold a candle to the righteous adrenaline of war.
Two years ago, W.H. Auden’s mournful poem "September 1, 1939" suddenly drew wide media attention. Set amid the "blind skyscrapers" of Manhattan, where "buildings grope the sky," the poem seemed to eerily echo the World Trade Center calamity with words that closed the first stanza: "The unmentionable odor of death / Offends the September night."
The concluding lines of the next verse received less notice during the terrible autumn of 2001. But we now have more reason to consider their meaning: "Those to whom evil is done / Do evil in return."
This is useful when you want to keep track or communicate additional notes on a media plan such as defining the objectives, or giving justifications/clarifications for the allocated budgets.
The planning module has 3 new columns that gives a summary and quick links to items in other modules related to a given media insertion:
This is useful when you want to keep track or communicate additional notes on a media insertion such as defining the objectives for the ad, or giving justifications/clarifications for the allocated budget.
This is useful when you want to spread the cost of an insertion throughout several dates such as when you have a yearly contract with a media supplier that you plan to spend on a monthly basis.
You can now view the media insertion details in the blocking chart when you mouse-over a given cell.
The media plan and/or organization budget notes are displayed in the blocking chart. You can also edit the notes directly from the blocking chart.
The blocking chart also highlights the media insertions that contains notes with a red triangle at the top-right corner of the cell. You can view the notes in the details popover.
The "Production" module has 3 new columns that gives a summary and quick links to items in other modules related to a given creative project: