9/11 coverage...thoughts?

[searadiofreak]

I thought the networks and cablenets were quite on target today. A subdued approach, nothing overly hyped, and respectful to the ceremonies. Perhaps a lesson for other future events...

 

[sdwulfdawg]

I thought the networks and cablenets were quite on target today. A subdued approach, nothing overly hyped, and respectful to the ceremonies. Perhaps a lesson for other future events...

CNN's coverage was the best of them all....great music, great simple graphics....

 

[kenneykop]

CBS was the best...they stuck with the whole ceremony, not interrupting for yakety yak like ABC with over-emotional Diane Sawyer and little Miss Know-It-All Christianne Amanpour. Same goes for NBC and Brian Williams & Co. Also kudos to CNBC for simulcasting WNBC's entire coverage.

 

[Markxxx]

CBS was the best...they stuck with the whole ceremony, not interrupting for yakety yak like ABC with over-emotional Diane Sawyer and little Miss Know-It-All Christianne Amanpour. Same goes for NBC and Brian Williams & Co. Also kudos to CNBC for simulcasting WNBC's entire coverage.

I agree with ABC, it was just that.

 

[gregg75]

I didn't want to spend the weekend with wall to wall coverage, but I did catch
the NBC Brokaw special on Friday night and it was excellent.

CBS had a riviting special Sunday night and it was pretty good also (somehow they
were allowed to keep all the cuss words from the actual footage intact). It would have
been just as fine with bleeps though IMO.

I'd vote to move the Labor Day holiday to Sept. 11th.

 

[flytrap]

I didn't want to spend the weekend with wall to wall coverage, but I did catch
the NBC Brokaw special on Friday night and it was excellent.

CBS had a riviting special Sunday night and it was pretty good also (somehow they
were allowed to keep all the cuss words from the actual footage intact). It would have
been just as fine with bleeps though IMO.

I'd vote to move the Labor Day holiday to Sept. 11th.

The one on CBS was a rerun with some added interview at the end. It first aired not long after the attacks. The filmaker was making a run of the mill doc. about the fire department 9-11 happened and managed to get the only clear footage of the first plane hitting the building. They also ran the show with the cursing intact the first time. Including the "F" word. which is rare on broadcast TV.

 

[dhett]

I didn't want to spend the weekend with wall to wall coverage, but I did catch
the NBC Brokaw special on Friday night and it was excellent.

CBS had a riviting special Sunday night and it was pretty good also (somehow they
were allowed to keep all the cuss words from the actual footage intact). It would have
been just as fine with bleeps though IMO.

I'd vote to move the Labor Day holiday to Sept. 11th.

The one on CBS was a rerun with some added interview at the end. It first aired not long after the attacks. The filmaker was making a run of the mill doc. about the fire department 9-11 happened and managed to get the only clear footage of the first plane hitting the building. They also ran the show with the cursing intact the first time. Including the "F" word. which is rare on broadcast TV.

9/11 was a fantastic documentary. I'd recommend it to anyone who can get their hands on it. I didn't get to see tonight's presentation, so I didn't get to see the most current commentary, but I still have the tape from the first time it ran. Was tonight's show run with limited commercials? 10 years ago, Ford sponsored the entire show; I think there was only one commercial break during the entire presentation.

 

[JeeperOne]

I thought the networks and cablenets were quite on target today. A subdued approach, nothing overly hyped, and respectful to the ceremonies. Perhaps a lesson for other future events...

CNN's coverage was the best of them all....great music, great simple graphics....

I thought NFL Network (Yes I said NFL Network) did an EXCELLENT job of keeping opening day in perspective compared to the ceremonies in New York, Washington & Pennsylvania

I also liked the guy who sung the National Anthem before today's early games. CBS, Fox & BOTH NFL Network channels were in simulcast during the pregame ceremonies (Which I gather was largely at Soldier Field in Chicago of all places). Not sure if ESPN was among them or not as I didn't check them

Cheers & 73

 

[The Voice of Reason]

The History Channel had an excellent program about 9-11.

 

[Mario500]

I did not care for the coverage, as it should have been an ordinary day for the broadcasters doing the coverage. I wish they would stop referring to the events of 2001 by the calendar date alone without the year either in numeral form or long form. They have made a victim out of a calendar date.

Every day is a new day and good things and bad things happen ever day, yet no one would ever refer to something bad as "7/4" or "July 4th" or "12/25" or "December 25th". No calendar date should be overshadowed by an event or a series of events that happened to occur on the same date.

I hope everyone who was born on the eleventh day of September had a good birthday yesterday in spite of the constant reminders of their birth date and its other meaning according to news broadcasters and/or their bosses. I hope for their sake and the sake of those who care that news broadcasters, news writers, and some of their viewers, listeners, and readers quit associating the eleventh day of September with the attacks and airplane hijackings that occurred on that date in 2001.

 

[borderblaster]

I plan to never forget

 

[Mario500]

I plan to never forget

I think think is part of the plan by some broadcasters and writers: to force you to forever associate an ordinary calendar date with tragedy. While the events may be worth remembering for the sake of humanity and knowledge, repeating that phrase is not really necessary.

 

[dhett]

I wish they would stop referring to the events of 2001 by the calendar date alone without the year either in numeral form or long form. They have made a victim out of a calendar date.

While I understand your sentiment, it is no different than FDR declaring that December 7th would be a day that would forever live in infamy.

I hope everyone who was born on the eleventh day of September had a good birthday yesterday in spite of the constant reminders of their birth date and its other meaning according to news broadcasters and/or their bosses. I hope for their sake and the sake of those who care that news broadcasters, news writers, and some of their viewers, listeners, and readers quit associating the eleventh day of September with the attacks and airplane hijackings that occurred on that date in 2001.

My father's birthday is on 9/11, and he's had to learn to live with the day being associated with tragedy. I spent the majority of the day with him yesterday, and needless to say, there was no WTC coverage on TV in his home. One day, the sting will lessen, as it has with December 7th, but for now, it is what it is. Each needs to deal with it as he sees fit.

 

[Markxxx]

I did not care for the coverage, as it should have been an ordinary day for the broadcasters doing the coverage. I wish they would stop referring to the events of 2001 by the calendar date alone without the year either in numeral form or long form. They have made a victim out of a calendar date.

I can see your point, and I would agree except that there is no real good substitute name for it. Had the attacks just occurred in NYC, it would've been referred to as the World Trade Center Attacks. Or had they just happened in DC, it would've been the Pentagon Attack, but there is no real other way to combine the events of that day into one little neat package.

Other "event days" like Pearl Harbor Dec 7th or D-Day, June 6th are largely forgotten by most of the young people, indeed when I was young I remembered those days every year, but I haven't thought of them in the last two decades.

 

[Markxxx]

I wonder if anyone will do anything to commemorate the anthrax attacks?

 

[vchimpanzee]

I didn't watch anything. The one thing I would have liked to see was coverage ABC, NBC or CBS from that day. Fox News did do that but it was too late by the time I found out.

 

[Bongwater]

I'm not saying this to be rude. But this is my personal opinion.

I've already lived through the horror of that day ONCE through television.

I didn't feel it was necessary to repeat it.

 

[ShawnHill1]

I'm not saying this to be rude. But this is my personal opinion.

I've already lived through the horror of that day ONCE through television.

I didn't feel it was necessary to repeat it.

I understand your point, as I didn't watch any 9/11-related programming yesterday outside of what the NFL did with the tribute ceremonies prior to each kickoff (1, 4:15, and 8:30pm ET). I've watched a couple of related documentaries this past week, including portions of the interview former President George W. Bush did for National Geographic Channel, and something else I seen on The Smithsonian Channel in which members of the (second) Bush Administration were interviewed as well.

It's just too depressing, personally, thinking about what happened on that tragic day ten years ago.

 

[vchimpanzee]

I'm not saying this to be rude. But this is my personal opinion.

I've already lived through the horror of that day ONCE through television.

I didn't feel it was necessary to repeat it.

I understand your point, as I didn't watch any 9/11-related programming yesterday outside of what the NFL did with the tribute ceremonies prior to each kickoff (1, 4:15, and 8:30pm ET). I've watched a couple of related documentaries this past week, including portions of the interview former President George W. Bush did for National Geographic Channel, and something else I seen on The Smithsonian Channel in which members of the (second) Bush Administration were interviewed as well.

It's just too depressing, personally, thinking about what happened on that tragic day ten years ago.

Yeah, I get both of your points. I've just never experienced the day the way the rest of the world did, and I feel the need to do that. It would have been scary to wonder what was coming next, but the reality is when I was at the library, hearing someone on an Internet computer giving periodic updates (The Pentagon, rumors about the White House), I didn't want to hear any more. But I've never actually known what it was like for the news anchors wondering when it was all going to end. I went outside to walk for exercise and halfway expected planes to attack where I was.

But believe it or not, I didn't know the towers fell until 5:00 (the guy on the computer said a tower fell, but I interpreted that as meaning the part above where the planes hit. At no time did I think an entire one of those towers would fall). Now that part of it I've witnessed in a documentary and a mad-for-TV movie with some fictional elements. And I did get tired of watching recaps that night as I waited for the prime-time programming that never came--even though the WB station had "Drew Carey" reruns.

 

[gregg75]

Good points. I do think we need to move on and recover instead of dwell on the tragedy.
This year seems to be the most "coverage" we've ever seen.......so maybe it's downhill
from this point forward (let's hope so).