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Today, much of the media is concentrating on September 11 coverage. On our local channels, there's extended TV coverage of memorial events in the city and WABC, WNBC and WCBS has taken over from the national broadcasts (NY1 has live audio and live video). MSNBC is repeating the Today Show from September 11, 2001. And the newspapers have a fair amount of coverage - the NY Times runs a banner headline and devote all of above-the-fold to September 11 (it's about 3/5th of the whole front page), the Daily News has a stark white-type-on-black background cover with the times when the planes hit the towers, and the Post has a photo of the Bushes at Ground Zero - and hey there's a $6 million Monopoly card game.
The NY Times also revisits some families in their Portraits of Grief section, which was heartbreaking reading in the days after September 11 and a separate section, "Broken Ground," about the rebuilding process at Ground Zero. On the NYTimes.com website's WTC topic section, you can read all the "Portraits of Grief" as well as see the online coverage for the September 11-21, 2001, plus September 11 in 2002, 2003, and 2004.
The Daily News's website has a 9/11: Five Years Later section full of articles, photo galleries and a special series on the "forgotten victims" - the responders affected by the toxic dust. amNew York's homepage has been scrolling the names of victims; the amny.com website has an extensive September 11 section. The Post's September 11 section has interactive elements.
And a quick roundup of coverage on TV news websites: Here are the sections from NBC and CBS - and ABC News has a piece on the Florida school kids who watched President Bush get the news about the attacks (here's the ABC News September section). And on CNN.com, you can rewatch footage from September 11, 2001.
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i lived about two blocks from the wtc on 9/11 and i'm conflicted about going down there tonight. on one hand, i like the idea of paying my respects to the neighborhood and the people. on the other, i'm a little disgusted by how it's just becoming another 'event' – i'm afraid that i'm going to see a million tourists who are going down there just to try to a part of something.
i am similarly conflicted as well...
i have conflicted feelings too.
i work two blocks from there and it absolutely infuriates me when people ask me where ground zero is in the same way that they would ask where the nearest mcdonald's is. i even have had people laugh and smile heartily when they ask me, as if it's some sort of broadway musical and not a graveyard.
that being said, i don't think i would go to a site in any country where there has been a horrific tragedy just to gawk, buy souveniers, and to pretend that i know what it felt like to be there when i don't and then i get to go home and not think about it anymore. unlike those of us who live here and think about it every single day.
The Post is nothing but a bunch of idiot f**kwits. They are so tacky that even on a day like this they devote half their front page to a sweepsyakes. I love how they can make something like someone getting murdered by their husband or someone flying planes into buildings a footnote to their promotions. They're disgusting.
Frankly, I'm surprised their Scratch n' Win isn't for $9.11 mil.
My 4 train stopped at 8:46 and 9:03AM this morning for 30-second moments of silence. Did this happen for everyone on their commute?
Holy shit the Post has stooped to a new low...
Mark the date on the calendar...
Wait... Don't... I don't want them sharing this day...
I used to go to the site the night before to avoid the crowds. I would suggest waiting until tomorrow. The tourists remember 9/11, the New Yorkers remember the days after that too -- the smell, the sounds of sirens down there, the missing posters on every block we lived on. We had to keep living in the city like that so go tomorrow and remember those who kept trying to live a life when all we could do was go through the motions to keep our sanity.
I checked out MSNBC, and happened to tune in when Katie Couric mentioned the "TWA 800 bombing" which just lead me to wonder. . .
As for the Post, when did they ever have tact, since they are the paper that came up with the classic headline "HEADLESS BODY IN TOPLESS BAR" so wbat do you expect. Today just shows yet again why the Daily News is the better paper, and it is not just for the comics.
Does the Rag known as NY Post really shock anyone anymore??
While the Post did not advertise a $9.11M jackpot in their crass Monopoly 1/2 page, it did advertise six million dollars, and when you say "six million" to many New Yorkers, that usually brings to mind another immense human tragedy -- the Holocaust. What is the Post thinking?
Yah, it's ratings which is money which is bad. But it's the media, what can you do?
Silly Hilton: Everyone who reads the Post knows there was no Holocaust.
I was on a 2 train this morning going between Clark St (Brooklyn) and Wall Street. We didn't stop at 8:46AM, but the conductor announced a shutoff of the lights and a "moment of silence" at the time.
I haven't been up to much lately. I've basically been doing nothing , but it's not important. I can't be bothered with anything recently. I've just been letting everything happen without me lately.