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Some US broadcasters vied for the appropriate words to put in a nutshell the feelings of the nation, music often twisted out to be the simplest type of communication.
Some of the families of those who had died in the attacks had asked television networks to try to veer off from the continuous repetition of the moments that the World Trade Centre towers were primary hit and which for weeks following the attack appeared to run roughly on a loop on many news channels. Many of the stations emerged to have thrilled that request, concentrating instead on covering live the different memorial ceremonies from across the nation.
Some TV network stations focused on New York and ran the two-hour reading of the names of the dead. Other television broadcast followed George and Laura Bush to their 3 memorial ceremonies.
But as the day wore on the familiar images of the towers being struck and bursting into flames were replayed, as was old footage of rescue attempts and survivors’ real life experiences.
Radio stations also covered the live events. Others played what they felt was appropriate music. On the internet, Yahoo! had a special memorial site where normally an advertisement would have been.
The New York Times, which has become the paper of record for the attack, announced that US Steps Up Alert as Solemn Day Arrives and ran a special section looking at “the new age of terror.” Many of the financial companies that had lost members in the attacks took out whole-page advertisements in the paper to remember them. The government of Kuwait expressed its condolences in a similar way and major companies took space to leave their messages.
Burberry quoted Sir Winston Churchill: “Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality that guarantees all the others.”
The Wall Street Journal carried a report on whether September 11 had altered the ways that Americans regarded religion and concluded that it had not.
“Despite a brief surge – churches, synagogues and other spiritual centers were crowded with 25% more people immediately after last September 11 – attendance subsided within weeks.”
On the other coast, the Los Angeles Times ran a memorial section – “A day we can’t forget, a future we struggle to envision” – and carried a photograph of the changed New York landscape across its front page.
Variety, the daily paper of the entertainment industry, had its own peculiar take on the day. “The world’s problems cannot be simplified to the terms of showbiz but now and then its insights may help,” said an editorial.
“Take the war that we’ve been engaged in for the past year; it has a serious third-act problem. There is no terrorist nation that will simply surrender. There will be no tickertape parades down Fifth Avenue. In all likelihood, this will be a struggle without end.”
Sources:
EHow.com
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