What Happened to 9-11?

How did your local paper treat today's anniversary of possibly the greatest catastrophe in U.S. history?

If you were living here in Albuquerque, depending on the Albuquerque Journal, you probably would not even know it was a special day.

Now, I must confess that I was jolted into action by an email from a friend who just wrote me and said, "I loved the Albuquerque Journal front page.  9/11 was not worthy of ANY mention on the front page??? But, luckily, we got to read about campaign signs and mountain lions.  The Journal is so ****ed up." (I am sure she meant "messed" up.) 

What does it say when the LEAD story in today's Journal was about some boys being sexually humiliated WEEKS ago? Yes, it was a sick tragedy, but, really, it was the Journal's third story about these poor kids, i.e., very old news. This sort of editing reminds one of the National Enquirer.

The Journal devoted almost a whole PAGE to Sarah Palin, but only a TINY mention on page seven about the anniversary of the date that has cost our country literally TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS, THOUSANDS OF DEAD, a DEVASTATED ECONOMY and much more!

9/11 affects our lives in so many ways. Our bridges are ancient, falling down, and we don't have the money to fix them. Our electric transmission system is prehistoric; our schools are ineffective; we are sending $700 Billion to our enemies every year for oil. The list goes on. Economists call this opportunity cost--the cost of what we are giving up because of what we are spending on the war on terror.