Posted on 08/25/2006 12:04:25 PM PDT by blu
CNN will mark the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks by replaying on the Internet the cable network's coverage of that day's events.
Viewers can watch how events unfolded starting at 8:30 a.m., minutes before the first reports of an airplane hitting the World Trade Center. The feed will run in real time, as the network showed it five years ago, until midnight.
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They must be feeling it at this point. This leftist stuff isn't selling ads like it used to.
I predict a pretty good ratings bump.
It's unbelieveable that people in this country have tried to sweep the events of that day, and their implications, under the rug.
Please don't. I really went through it once on the actual day. I don't need to be given the 24 hour coverage again. I bet Fox is going to have wall to wall coverage too. And FREEPERS is going to be loaded with posts about it. Why don't we only have positive posts that day. Every FREEPERS remembers that day. We support that President, pray for the families of the victims of 9/11 and support the troops now. Let's not have all the other coverage. The memorial service again with President Clinton, Carter etc. Ugh!
That is a great recommendation. I hope Jim does it. Someone has to write the definitive book on FR, and should be Jim. Perhaps Jerome Corsi can co-write it.
Don't forget Princess Diana's death is coming up again!!!!! Oh and Mother theresa...Oh that's right she doesn't get coverage over the so called "Saint Diana." Ugh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
After the Columbia Shuttle disaster, I went back and read the thread, which began around 5:30 a.m. Pacific Time. People were posting comments about the Shuttle mission, about the re-entry, cracking jokes as is usual of Freepers. Some even posted that they'd gone outside in the pre-dawn dark of the west coast and watched the Shuttle go over on its re-entry. Then the reports started coming in, and there was a flood of commentary by Freepers. It was riveting and chilling at the same time. To read a thread as an event like that is unfolding is amazing.
See post 22 uptopic.
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There used to be a website called the Television Archive, I believe. You could go back and get network TV feeds from a wide variety of stations on streaming video for certain days. One of those days was 9/11. I watched those feeds about three years ago, and it was very interesting to see how things developed, the utter confusion...and in a way, how useless the modern talking-head TV model is.
One thing that was interesting was that all the Big Three network feeds were from local Washington, DC stations. So none of them actually showed the live collapse of WTC 1 and 2, because they were all focusing on the Pentagon attack.
I will say this. I have little use for Aaron Brown in general. But watching the clips of him broadcasting on CNN during the collapse of the second tower was just...words fail me.
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Yes, I quite understand the feelings of shock. The images of people jumping to their deaths to escape the flames was truly horrific. I also recall praying for those in the Towers, but knowing that there was little hope for their survival.
I was torn between wanting to cry and being so angry that I wanted to strike back. I recall commenting to coworkers that the retribution the terrorist will get will change the world forever. Unfortunately, we have not yet done enough to the terrorist to make them stop. Also unfortunate that we have U.S. citizens who think this country deserved what happened that day, and that we should lose this war. And many of these so-called citizens are not of Arab or Muslim desent (such as Mike Whitney who wrote an article entitled "Why America Should Lose The Iraq War" or something like that). I find these people to be worse than the terrorists. At least I understand where the terrorist's hatred of America comes from (Islamic Facists). Americans like Whitney (a former DemoncRat strategist from WA State), Kevin Barrett, and Ward Churchill have no excuses.
Those who understand the implications of 9/11, and who continue to believe it is important to fight back, outnumber the defeatists in this country by about 2%. And the way things are going, if we're to believe the polls (a big "if," I'll admit), that 2% advantage may have disappeared over the past two years.
I'd love to find this site. Do you have the URL?
I've stopped even listening to anything about polls. They are the most easily manipulated tool of the Ill-Liberals in this country. After weeks of the leftist media telling the general public how rotten things are in/on (insert any location/issue), they then take a poll to find out how people feel about that location/issue. And then the sheople of this country buy into their crap poll. I refuse to make decisions regarding the most important issues in my life time based on some lame poll. I don't need some "polster" telling me how/what to think.
I would like to see the Administration taking a different tact in dealing with all the liberal inspired "news" so that the American public can get a different perspective on what is going on in the world.
Reagan was successful at communicating around the media, and it drove them nuts. Bush doesn't have that skill, and it's hurting his policies.
I wish Fox would do the same, I'd much rather watch it's coverage than CNN's.
I didn't have FoxNews on 9-11, cable company wouldn't carry it. I'd really like to see their coverage.
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Yes, agreed. Although for a while after 9/11 he seemed to be able to communicate pretty well. I'm not sure why things changed for the worse. Rove should really find a way to get that ability back, and quickly.
I was just telling Mr. P about this. He was poll managing that day and didn't see television at all until 9:00 at night so even though it's CNN, he may watch some of this on the computer.
I wish FNC would do this too, prairie; maybe if we inundate them with suggestions?
It started off with a soap opera and then a news bulletin about JFK being shot and then they stayed with the coverage for the next 10 hours or so.
Two things I remember vividly is Jackie Kennedy in her blood stained dress watching the coffin being unloaded from Air Force One and the cigarette smoke that permeated on the screen as reporters were reporting the events of that day.
It was a great historical lesson.
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