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listening to the reporting.. what we knew or thought we knew at that time..
wow.
8:18 am CT - 1st mention of a possible airplane hyjacking.
CNN pipeline is replaying CNN's coverage on 9/11. Its pretty tough to watch, but if you want to watch it from a historical perspective or just to remember, I believe CNN pipeline is free today.
I'm watching it and the 2nd plane just went in. The innocence of the news people struck me across the face, as all they could talk about at first was a navigational failure or the like untill an NTSB guy was put on the phone.
listening to the reporting.. what we knew or thought we knew at that time..
wow.
8:18 am CT - 1st mention of a possible airplane hyjacking.
I was going to post pretty much the same thing.I'm watching it and the 2nd plane just went in. The innocence of the news people struck me across the face, as all they could talk about at first was a navigational failure or the like untill an NTSB guy was put on the phone.
It was something like, "We now have to ask the question... IS THIS the result of a navigational malfunction?"
How times have changed. These days terrorism is suspected for even a simple power outage.
Also, sort of weird and maybe not all that interesting, but at 8:30 EST (when the Pipeline began its coverage) CNN was doing a story on hurricane evacuation preparedness. No .
Its really surreal.
the news anchor asking if they could "shut down that airspace" to prevent another plane form going into the WTC.... the interviewee replys that it doesn;t look like and accident and there is no open/close gate on airspace.
wow. that got me right there.
ok.
now they got to the part where reporters were asking the pres. if he was aware of what was going on while he was reading a book to school children.
watching/listenign to this again..... oh my.
I think another way to look at this, hindsight being 20/20, is the amount of incorrect information that was being relayed to the media during these moments.
A fire on the National Mall, for one.
I was just about to post about that. Its tough to look at this in a historical perspective, however. When you see the chaos and the fear, and when you notice just how much we've changed it pisses you off so much.
The first tower will collapse in about 10 minutes.
The fall of the first tower is about ten minutes from now.
Also, the amount of "eyewitness" information that was incorrect as well.
A helicopter had flown into the Pentagon.
It's just amazing. I'm watching the footage on MSNBC.
They keep asking if America ever had any hints or previews or warnings of this ever happening. And they are saying NO, nothing at all.
Maybe Bush sat there for those 7 minutes wondering if he should of read that CIA briefing that was led "Bin Laden Determined to Attack Inside the US" from just a month earlier.
All the terror these people went through...
Sad, sad, sad.
They just mentioned OBL's name. I remember when I first saw the images thats the first name that went through my head, so I'm rather sure that anyone in the "know" that morning had no doubts.
I remember they sent us home when I was in college. Everyone was talking about it at the bus stops, downtown, it was something I'll always remember clearly.
Watching MSNBC..
Yea, 1st one down.
The 2nd tower just collapsed and Aaron Brown can't figure it out. The debris over lower Manhattan is just phenomanal.
Interesting that CNN doesn't even have some of their coverage available.
I would probably chalk it up to bad tapes, though.
I videotaped 24 hours of coverage on 9/11 and 9/12/2001, starting at the point that the WTC 1 (the North Tower) collapsed. I pull those tapes out every year and watch them and can say that I'm still struck by the fact that those images, no matter how many times I see them, send a chill through me and continue to be completely sobering.
It's interesting to juxtapose that coverage with the retrospective statements of those who say they knew immediately what was going on. I'm not sure that too many of us knew (or wanted to believe) what we were seeing.
I'm sure that JB can speak more eloquently to the media issues surrounding the coverage, but it strikes me as a remarkable effort to report a horrifying story that was unfolding across hundreds of miles, in the sky, as the reporters and witnesses are dealing with all of the human emotions that the viewers dealt with. It's understandable to me that there would be a great deal of misinformation and confusion during that time, particularly given that NEADS, FAA, DOT, and other air-specific governmental agencies didn't really know what was going on. In a relatively short period of time, the media actually did a remarkable job of sorting through the information and reporting the facts that the public needed to know.
I watched the beginning of the stream at home earlier, but had to leave it to come to the office. I think I'll start it over again.
Typical. Didn't take long for the someone to scream "Bush".
Facts are facts.
Last edited by SA210; 09-11-2006 at 09:22 AM.
I'm no fan of this President's, but I wish it was possible to just respectfully commemorate such a horrendous tragedy in at least one thread without delving into political blamesaying.
I guess that's just wishful thinking on my part.
Im with you, FWD...it would have been nice.
me too.Watching MSNBC..
If you don't think 9/11 will be used for political reasons you are not living on this earth.
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