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08/16/2003 Archived Entry: "What's wrong with this picture?"
What's wrong with this picture?
Did they really think no one would notice?
It's a good thing they didn't trademark the phrase 'honest & accurate.'
(Thanks to Barney Gumble from MWOWWWW for pointing it out. Good eye, Barney.)
Replies: 14 people speak up
Thanks. I stole if from filepile.org (http://www.filepile.org/index.php/file/178282), so cred goes to userhotdonuts now. Some interesting comments on it too:
"At Fox News they are always lying."
"what? those towers are fair and balanced!"
"Love the "Blame Canada" headline at the bottom of the shot..
"It's everyone's fault but ours!""
(there also are some claiming that that isn't the WTC. I don't know NYC so I can't tell)
Posted by barney gumble @ 08/16/2003 02:46 PM NY
I don't see the transmission tower on top of what was once the North Tower, I don't believe that's the WTC.
I was watching a clip from a press conference by a mayor of one of the blacked-out Canadian cities (sorry, I didn't get the city). He reacted angrily to reports that it was Canada's fault by saying, "When was the last time that America ever admitted it was wrong?"
Little does he know that we are perfect. Dumb Canadians, dumb world.
Posted by Metropolitan99 @ 08/16/2003 04:43 PM NY
Metropolitan99: I was watching a clip from a press conference by a mayor of one of the blacked-out Canadian cities (sorry, I didn't get the city). He reacted angrily to reports that it was Canada's fault by saying, "When was the last time that America ever admitted it was wrong?"
It was the colourful Mel Lastman, the Mayor of Toronto... He is hmmmm... well known for his flamboyant style and numerous gaffes and bluster, like this one, before going on a trip to Africa, to sell the city's bid for the 2008 Summer Olympics:
"What the hell do I want to go to a place like Mombasa?… I just see myself in a pot of boiling water with all these natives dancing around me."
But this time, I must admit that Mel nailed it right on the button!
Posted by Claude B (F & B) @ 08/16/2003 05:43 PM NY
"Have you ever seen the United States take the blame for anything?" fumed Toronto Mayor Mel Lastman
Posted by barney gumble @ 08/16/2003 06:32 PM NY
that's just creepy. Can't really say for certian they're *not* the WTC, as I'm only familiar with a very small, 5 block region of greenwich village, but isnt that right where they used to be in the skyline?
Posted by plucky punk @ 08/16/2003 07:51 PM NY
i CAUGHT SOMETHING ON MSNBC THIS MORNING WHERE THEY SAID THESE BUILDINGS ARE ACTUALLY BEING BUILT BY AOL OR SOMETHING TO THAT EFFECT, ANYWAYS, THESE ARE REAL LEGIT BUILDINGS GOING UP THERE.
Posted by Thom Perkins @ 08/16/2003 08:02 PM NY
It could very well be a pic from the 1977 blackout - completion of the transmitters at One WTC didn't occur until 1981 or so.
Posted by Hoffmania! @ 08/16/2003 08:12 PM NY
Hey folks:
I'm pretty confident those are the AOL Time Warner towers that are being built at Central Park West and 57th Street. Not a stock photo. The giveaway? At that angle, and distance, you'd be able to see Empire State Building if that were downtown, or some of the other midtown skyscrapers. Their absence is telling.
Posted by Geoff @ 08/16/2003 10:02 PM NY
Claude,
Thanks for that wonderful Mombasa quote from Mayor Lastman, that was priceless! Sounds like he might make a worthy US president. Oh, wait, it sounds like he knows his geography. Never mind.
Barney,
Thanks for correcting my mis-quote, I apologize for not using the exact words.
Geoff,
Thanks for the AOL Time Warner reference. I wonder how they financed those buildings given the company's appalling financial condition.
Posted by Metropolitan99 @ 08/16/2003 11:30 PM NY
To demonstrate that Fox News is not really a news channel, on 9/11/2001, when all this was happening, I remember turning to Fox News (I was flipping through all the channels), and what I saw was the feed from CNN. Fox does not have the true news gathering infrastrure of a true news channel.
Posted by Chuck M @ 08/17/2003 01:25 AM NY
Okay, this is just bad. Fox News horrific as it is, this entire post and conversation following is embarrasing for anyone left of George W. Bush.
It's not the World Trade Center. It's two buildings still undergoing construction in midtown. I look at them every day as my bus comes out of the Lincoln tunnel and swings up the NJ Turnpike. For Christ's sake, you can see the goddamn construction crane on top of the buildings. Maybe that was the excuse seeing how the only way those could have been the Twin Towers with their height proportion to the rest of the landscape would be if you thought for some reason it was a photo of them halfway built or something. Put short, there is absolutely no logical claim that these are the Twin Towers except for the fact that there happen to be two of them. Wow.
Second, Fox News carried CNN's feed at times on 9/11/01 because a federal state of emergency was declared and the major networks agreed to share broadcasting feeds for the sake of public interest. Seeing how all advertising was cancelled for the next week it wasn't like they had to have a ratings war anyway. This also happened when the Columbia exploded. It has absolutely nothing to the quality of Fox News' infrastructure. Again, no offense, but you literally have absolutely no idea what you're talking about except that you don't like Fox News.
With the countless reasons out there Fox News is a bad network, or for that matter most American media networks, there is absolutely no excuse for a post like this. This makes a whole bunch of reasonable people look like complete and utter morons and fodder for conservative web trolls.
Posted by August J. Pollak @ 08/17/2003 11:53 AM NY
Sorry guys but you dudes are wrong - it's a picture from the Upper West Side of Manhattan taken by the Asspcoated Press
Get your facts right.
Posted by Bernie Soltis @ 08/19/2003 05:11 PM NY
Sorry guys but you dudes are wrong - it's a picture from the Upper West Side of Manhattan taken by the Asspcoated Press
Get your facts right.
Posted by Bernie Soltis @ 08/19/2003 05:12 PM NY
As much fun as it is to make fun of Fox News, they didn't screw up here. The photo clearly is of the Upper West Side and the two towers in the circle are the AOL Time Warner building in Columbus Circle. The skyline north of the AOL/TW building is generally higher, with a peak in the middle, than the view of the skyline from downtown. It's also possible to make out the elevated West Side highway.
Posted by Andrew @ 08/20/2003 07:42 AM NY
