CNN.com to replay 9/11 attacks coverage.

[Dogmatic187]

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.

For the day, CNN will make its online video service, CNN Pipeline, available for free. Normally, viewers pay $2.95 a month or $24.95 a year for four separate video feeds.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060825/ap_on_hi_te/attacks_cnn


I'm sure we all want to see that again.

 

[PuffnScruff]

i really dont want to see people jumping to their certain death again.

i know i wont be viewing this.

 

[Duke]

Reporting is a business nowadays.

 

[tennis_dog]

well, i was in the 7th grade when this happened...i saw nothing on tv until maybe lunchtime that day... the "good stuff" had allready passed....

this thing takes place on a monday...who the hell will watch it? everyone's at school or work...most probably, everyone taht saw it the first time around, will see it again...or will be there to see it again..

but i see nothing wrong with replaying it....to commemorate the event, i guess...

 

[Dogmatic187]

I was at school myself that day. When another teacher came knocking on our door whispering something to my teacher. She then went over to turn the television on and turned it to the Today show and right there, an image I will never forget, one of the towers with a hole in it and smoke just pouring out. Everyone in my class in shock, including my teacher, no one saying a word. Matt Lauer saying *maybe* a plane had crashed into the tower by accident. A few minutes later and I see one of the most shocking things I've ever seen, as it crashes into the other tower, and you hear it pick up speed right before it does. I knew I had just witnessed hundreds of people die at the moment, and my jaw hit the ground.

A few minutes later, there's talk about the Pentagon on fire, after that my Princable comes on the intercom confirming we're under attack. All we can do is sit there an watch. I won't forget that. I won't forget the people who jumped from the highest floors of the tower, I won't forget actually seeing so many police and firefighters go into the towers and minutes later they both come crashing down. Knowing so many people just died, it was shocking. And then we get the news that they are going to allow parents/guardings/relatives to pick us up and go home.

When that happened it was hysteria, I finally saw my sister and my grandmother waiting for me, my grandmother took my sister and I home and she went to get our cousins. My sister was crying, every channel had some sort of coverage about it. I don't want to relive that again, I'm sure alot of people don't. I don't approve of what CNN is doing, I think it's wrong, I think it's completely disrespectful, and of course people are going to watch it. Fuck CNN.

 

[Sebastian]

I don't approve of what CNN is doing, I think it's wrong, I think it's completely disrespectful, and of course people are going to watch it. Fuck CNN.

Kind of my thoughts too.

 

[Morris]

I don't think it's disrespectful to show the coverage. Seeing acts of terrorism, whether this or those beheading videos, gives you a stark reminder of just how barbaric and gruesome it is, and it reminds you that the casualties weren't just a number.

 

[Sebastian]

Of course is it disrespectful towards the victims families to show how their loved ones died 5 years ago, when they jumped out of the window or burned in the towers. There is no need to show it again, im pretty sure everyone will remember how things happened at this day.

 

[S. Fourteen]

^ People on the sidelines were saying that Hollywood films like United 93 was a disrespect towards the victim's families but the facts is they were in communication with the families and the families supported the film because, in their minds, it was about keeping the memory alive. They felt that it was important for all of us to remember what happened and how they died.

[edit] When I was in school, I remember every year on April 19th we took 168 seconds of silence in respect to those who died in the Oklahoma City bombing. I don't think the students, myself included, cared enough.

 

[Flipmo]

I was in the bus when it happened, so when I got to school, the first one had already hit. My friends came up to me and was like, you hear a plane hit the World Trade. I was like oh ya? Must have been an accident.. That's really too bad. Then while I was in class the second one hit. Teacher left class, came back and told us a second one hit, and it was an attack. Outside ppl were blowing their horns, and screaming. My school had alot of Arabs in the area (even though my school was mostly blacks lol), so I guess they were reacting to it. They were gonna cut classes here early, but they didn't amd in the end of the day all the ghetto thugs and jocks were scared of taking the subway. Bunch of pussies.

My bro saw it all on tv live though. When the first one hit, he kept watching till the 2nd one hit also. He apperently jumped when he saw the 2nd one heading for the tower.

 

[PuffnScruff]

i woke up out of bed right around the time the first plane hit. turned on the tv like i usually did every morning and put it on the local news and tried to fall back asleep like normal, but i heard them say a plane hit the tower and it got my attention. not too long after i saw the 2nd plane hit live on tv. i was glued to the news and flipping between every news stations all day long. watching people jump from the towers on live tv was crazy.

 

[hizzle?]

wooow, you guys really have a lot of war stories.




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I was at school myself that day. When another teacher came knocking on our door whispering something to my teacher. She then went over to turn the television on and turned it to the Today show and right there, an image I will never forget, one of the towers with a hole in it and smoke just pouring out.

wtf you have tvs in your classes???

 

[PELLA]

Reporting is a business nowadays.

tru say, tru say



i was in gr 10 i think, english class. THe principal announced it to the whole school. I was shocked! Got home, first think i did was turn on CNN and there it was.

 

[Duke]

I too, remember it well. It was around 3/4 in the afternoon when my mate on MSN told me to turn the TV on. I was shocked, obviously. We held 2 minutes of silence in school the next day.

 

[stefanwzyga]

i saw nothing on tv until maybe lunchtime that day... the "good stuff" had allready passed....

The good stuff What like people jumping from the towers?


Maybe im a sicko but il be watching, fuck i might even tape it.

R.I.P to all those poor souls who lost there lives though.

 

[Dogmatic187]

wtf you have tvs in your classes???

When I was there we did, I graduated a while ago. There was a tv in almost every room, for educational videos of course.

 

[PuffnScruff]

we had tv's in all of our classrooms too. ever since jr high school i cant recall a classroom that didnt have one. we also had to watch "channel one" ,the news program that was made for jr/high school students, everyday so it was sort of manditory for a t.v. in the classroom

 

[Bhuddahhoodlum]

honestly, the shit didn't move me. i was distant to it. i understand the loss of life, but ever since i've been watching the news as a lil' kid it's been "Bomber kills twenty" "Riot in sports arena kills five" "Gunmen in "What's That Place" massacres village", whatever fucked up shit happened locally, and then it's right on to cooking with the weatherman. at this point, i've gotten desensitized(sp?). from the news and my own experiences. so really i went right on with the rest of my day.

the shit was history, so i understand the need to remember what happened. but the way it's honored is so subjective, you can't please everyone with how you do it. though, i do think that if the relatives will be offended by it, then they just shouldn't watch it. same as any death in the family, if something in life reminds you of a lost loved one, you avoid it. especially if you're not over it yet.

 

[EDouble]

its a tough situation but every body should be thankful they ddint plan to show it on the Air, & are doin it over the net

damn, besides that..its only the people who want to check it out that will be. it'l be just the same once they start havin hella documentaries in the future etc or movies, peoplell have to reach back use all that footage again

 

[Preach]

i dunno if me not being american makes a difference, but i have no problem with this. i'm not gonna watch it, but doing so may have been interesting.

it's on the internet, it's optional for whoever wants to have a look at it, so the victim's families don't exactly get it thrown in their face.