9/11 MEDIA COVERAGE

MEDIA COVERAGE

HOW IT WAS COVERED: SEPTEMBER 11TH, 2001

After the first plane crashed the first building of Twin Tower at 8:46am, it startled every single person in the newsroom in every part of the United States by storm. Within three minutes, CNN's New York Bureau cut off their scheduled commercial time and was the first network to air a live-streamed picture of the breaking news incident. As seen in this video, the Vice President of Finance for the network just happened to be only a mile and a half away and gave his entire witness stance from his location. He was able to be the confirmer for the bureau and brought this station major ratings for days to come. 

In order from the New York stations, the next stations to confirm the reports go: ABC-7, FOX-5, CBS-2, AND NBC-4 all back to back within seconds. The majority of the station's went ahead and aired the breaking news on their affiliate stations as well. 

 Station-wide, you could hear each anchor describe exactly what was going on, in the calmest tone they can. Because no one truly knew what was going on at that point, it sounded like each journalist was reporting something similar to a very terrible car accident. 

Not even two hours later, they went into shock all over again, as a plane drives right into the Pentagon in the D.C Metropolitan area. At that point, the reporters could confirm through vision alone, that we are most likely under some serious danger. 

 Once the second twin tower collapsed around 11am, media coverage just caved in and continued to cancel all programming. For the entire rest of the day until the President of the United States spoke after 7pm, the news continue to run pictures, interviews, updates, and information on the country being under this predicament. 

Other forms of media include radio, in which Howard Stern's NPR show & NYC's 1010AM radio were one of the first to announce the breaking news. 

HOW IT WOULD HAVE BEEN COVERED TODAY:

If twitter and social media and smart phone's were around during 9/11/13 ....

• History would have been written in 160 characters (Twitter)
• Pictures would have been in a 8 photo collage (Instagram)
• Status updates would explain your entire opinion (Facebook)
• A picture of the twin towers would have been sketched (Google Home Page)
• Next to position, would've listed "survivor" 9/11/01 to present (LinkedIn)