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Thread #48661   Message #731768
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
17-Jun-02 - 07:22 PM
Thread Name: BS: Starbucks 'Collapse' ad: PC or not PC?
Subject: RE: BS: Starbucks 'Collapse' ad: PC or not PC?
Without seeing the poster it's impossible to hazard a guess as to whether scrapping the poster is a ridiculous but of PR, or putting it out was a sick effort to cash in somehow on September 11th. Or maybe both.

The business of doctoring movies to remove the Two Towers is crazy and rather sick. Is the idea to pretend that they never existed, airbrush them out of history?

Maybe in disaster comic book films, like Spiderman, where the superhero saves everybody, that makes sense; there wasn't any superhero to do that on September 11th. But, as I understand it, the airbrush wielders have been busily removing any record of the existence of the Two Towers from all kinds of films and TV programmes which just happened to include them as an indication that they were set in New York, the way they might include the Empire State Building or the Statue of Liberty. or Tower Bridge in London

If that is true, it seems rather disgusting to me. I think I'd feel it as an insult if I was a New Yorker or maybe even more so if I'd lost somebody in the disaster.