Althouse: The real-time 2001 coverage.

September 11, 2006

The real-time 2001 coverage.

Beginning at 7:30 ET, CNN is repeating its coverage from September 11, 2001, on line, here.

5 comments:

Ann Althouse said...: I'm watching it. It's impressive how the journalists hold onto their professionalism and ask well-framed questions designed to extract information and resist jumping ahead to conclusions, although to some extent it seems like denial, as they cling to the idea that it was a technical failure and an accident.; 9/11/06, 8:31 AM
MadisonMan said...: I watched it then, and don't care to relive it. I'm pretty sure I remember most of it anyway. At some point the talking heads realize it must be an attack and the whole reporting shifts. If they're replaying it chronologically, that's coming up soon, I think.; 9/11/06, 8:53 AM
goesh said...: I too watched it unfold and won't watch it again. I rushed home and double-checked our emergency supplies, reached out to the whole extended family, sent wifey out to stock up on food, got a bunch of cash and a couple extra boxes of shotgun shells, filled water jugs and we hunkered down. I would have slapped on a coonskin cap had one been available. On day two with our airspace secure, I returned to work. We as a nation have survived things more terrible and the bastards that did this will not prevail against us.; 9/11/06, 10:03 AM
Troy said...: The FOXNews coverage... about 5 seconds after the second tower is hit, the words "Osama bin Laden" comes out of John Scott's mouth. 5 seconds earlier they were also speculating about distracted pilot's sunlight, navigational foulups, etc.

It's interesting to compare the remembered feelings of 5 years ago -- watching it with the cable guy in my living room (he had come to set up digital cable) -- of "What's happening?" and even "Wow!" (not flippantly, but the footage was spectacular) at the idea of it all. We (my wife -- not the cable guy)even took our son to Toys R Us that afternoon -- we lived in Texas. Viewing it now... a felt tense as I clicked the link and then a rising anger as the time progressed and I knew what was about to happen. Now I'm pissed.

I can't believe that George Bush would let Karl Rove talk him into that.; 9/11/06, 10:22 AM
MadisonMan said...: The problem with CNN anchors, when they're describing live coverage, is that unless they're intimately familiar with a location, they really can't add much. I vividly recall the Loma Prieta earthquake of 1989 -- was it really that long ago!? -- when they kept showing the pancaked double-decker highway. It took them for*ever* to realize the top half had collapsed onto the bottom.

I also recall the report that the fire in the first building caused the explosion in the second, even though you could see the plane banking in.

Of course, I doubt I could do any better. In fact, I'd probably be silent, a distinct no-no for TV.; 9/11/06, 11:37 AM