Fox News's Neil Cavuto brought a mother who lost her son on flight 93, Alice Hoagland, onto his show. His topic?
"Cloverfield is exploiting 9/11"
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It is?
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On January 18, Paramount Pictures will release a new movie titled, "Cloverfield." According to the movie's website, it is about five young New Yorkers who gather for a party and then try to survive a monster attack that hits the city that evening. Wikipedia describes it as "a 2008 monster movie." But according to Neil Cavuto, it is "exploiting" 9/11. Since the movie hasn't been released yet, that's hard to know but what we do know is that through this segment Fox News exploited 9/11.
Cavuto's guest was Alice Hoagland who lost her son, Mark Bingham, on flight 93. Cavuto introduced Hoagland with,
"Meanwhile, the Statue of Liberty decapitated in lower Manhattan [inaudible] people outraged today over this ad for Cloverfield. It's a movie that's coming out on January 18. For Americans everywhere, it's bringing back some painful memories of 9/11. My next guest says the movie is exploiting that tragedy. Alice Hoagland lost her son Mark that day. He was on board flight 93.
After nodding to Hoagland, Cavuto said, "So, you didn't like what you saw, right?"
Hoagland said, "Not very much. I'm afraid that this particular movie is taking advantage of the awful images of 9/11 and is doing it for its own profit. Unless the message is profound, unless it's talking about al Qaeda or one of al Qaeda's evil cousins, then it really should not be showing us images of the Statue of Liberty decapitated, beheaded and the images of lower Manhattan in flames."
Cavuto wondered, "What if they come around Alice and say, well, this is about aliens or monsters attacking Manhattan? This would be the result of that, having nothing to do with 9/11."
Hoagland talked briefly about some of the monster movies that have centered on Manhattan and then said, "but still, this particular poster image that I saw this morning for this movie was very hauntingly close to September 11 and I can't help thinking that they're really trying to gratuitously draw people in." She said she thinks it's "a mistake, it is a bad move for theater producers, ah, movie producers to take advantage of 9/11 in order to sell whatever it is it has to sell."
Cavuto's guest was Alice Hoagland who lost her son, Mark Bingham, on flight 93. Cavuto introduced Hoagland with,
"Meanwhile, the Statue of Liberty decapitated in lower Manhattan [inaudible] people outraged today over this ad for Cloverfield. It's a movie that's coming out on January 18. For Americans everywhere, it's bringing back some painful memories of 9/11. My next guest says the movie is exploiting that tragedy. Alice Hoagland lost her son Mark that day. He was on board flight 93.
After nodding to Hoagland, Cavuto said, "So, you didn't like what you saw, right?"
Hoagland said, "Not very much. I'm afraid that this particular movie is taking advantage of the awful images of 9/11 and is doing it for its own profit. Unless the message is profound, unless it's talking about al Qaeda or one of al Qaeda's evil cousins, then it really should not be showing us images of the Statue of Liberty decapitated, beheaded and the images of lower Manhattan in flames."
Cavuto wondered, "What if they come around Alice and say, well, this is about aliens or monsters attacking Manhattan? This would be the result of that, having nothing to do with 9/11."
Hoagland talked briefly about some of the monster movies that have centered on Manhattan and then said, "but still, this particular poster image that I saw this morning for this movie was very hauntingly close to September 11 and I can't help thinking that they're really trying to gratuitously draw people in." She said she thinks it's "a mistake, it is a bad move for theater producers, ah, movie producers to take advantage of 9/11 in order to sell whatever it is it has to sell."
Makes me very very very angry that people would try to use a harmless monster movie to exploit 9/11. That's what Fox did themselves. The movie has nothing even closely related to 9/11! There are lots of movies where New York City is destroyed or there is a terrible tragedy there. Why do we hear nothing about that? Whatever.
Your thoughts, Gaia?
