CNN streaming 9/11/01 for anniversary

pitu · August 2006

CNN to put 9/11 footage online
ASSOCIATED PRESS & NY DAILY NEWS

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.

Online viewers will be able to watch live reports of memorial services through one of the feeds. So that viewers won't accidentally stumble upon graphic footage from 2001, the replay feed will be covered with a notice instructing users to click only if they want to watch.

"Our users may choose to view the stream of coverage from Sept. 11, 2001, or live coverage of memorial services at Ground Zero, or they may click through the numerous interactive elements on the site," said David Payne, senior vice president and general manager of CNN.com.

"They have the power to determine the best way for them to remember the anniversary."

stacey · August 2006

I usually dont watch any television on that day because I just cannot bear to relive the pain but a part of me wants to make sure that an accurate picture of that day is preserved for all to see/learn/understand and most of all remember. I think CNN came up with a really good idea.

pitu · August 2006

Stacey, I agree.
I think it's totally interesting for them to make what is basically a primary historical document available, uncut.

escap · August 2006

If you really want to put yourself through agony, watch the HBO documentary that was made about 9/11. I taped it at the time but frankly haven't been able to ever watch it again and probably never will. But it is truly excellent.

stacey · August 2006

escap wrote: If you really want to put yourself through agony, watch the HBO documentary that was made about 9/11. I taped it at the time but frankly haven't been able to ever watch it again and probably never will. But it is truly excellent.

I heard the same thing but I dont know anyone personally who has seen it.

alafairnadia · August 2006

stacey wrote: [quote=escap]If you really want to put yourself through agony, watch the HBO documentary that was made about 9/11. I taped it at the time but frankly haven't been able to ever watch it again and probably never will. But it is truly excellent.

I heard the same thing but I dont know anyone personally who has seen it.

I watched it. I've had to watch tons of 9/11 footage and documentaries for my job. I refuse to watch any of it in my "free" time and get pretty pissed off, still, about ads on TV for the various documentaries and films.

stacey · August 2006

That really sucks - its must have been so hard for you to sit through

idlewild · August 2006

Actually, I thought the best coverage came from Howard Stern.

carnivore · August 2006

The best was The Onion.

alafairnadia · August 2006

[quote=Carnivore]The best was The Onion.

yeah. on 9/11 itself, I didn't have a television so I got all of my info from the guardian uk's website. but that onion issue saved my sanity, for sure.

theoryofpractice · August 2006

That day I was living downtown and in Chinatown near the Federal court before the second plane hit.

When I finally got home to a TV the last thing I wanted was to have my direct experience of the day supplanted by the TV version.

I feel even less desire to see CNN's take today.

CNN streaming 9/11/01 for anniversary

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