Monday - 1,826 Days Later
So it's been five years.
Like probably every other person in this country, I can remember, almost to the minute, what happened in my day throughout the day's events.
I noticed CNN is going to re-broadcast their unedited coverage from that day on their Web site and I plan on recording it.
When I was in Washington, D.C. in May, I had a couple of days before the Chips Quinn program started, so I used my cheap rental car and drove around D.C. and Arlington. I remember driving again and again by the Pentagon when I would go to the Marine Corps Memorial and I kept thinking about what that day must have been like at that exact spot.
I also had that same feeling as I flew into and out of Reagan Int'l Airport.
This post is going to ramble a bit. Right before I decided to make this post, I started flipping through the channels and came on A&E's United 93. I'd seen it already. I remember downloading it and watching it on my laptop one day. I'd also gone to see United 93 the weekend it came out.
I read a story this week that some people were asking CBS to edit out the profanity from their documentary 9/11 (the one from two French filmmakers that had been following the lives of a NYFD company).
How censored are we allowing ourselves to become? Are we so worried that we might actually learn our history as it was documented that we're afraid of some cursing that might burn little Johnny's ears?
Forget for a moment that I'm a journalist... how stupid is this? I've read people saying that there's no need for the profanity and it needs to be edited out - and if I remember correctly, I think my local affiliate is going to be one of the stations that runs the edited version.
Guess what? When I saw that plane hit the second tower, I said, "What the fuck?"
I also sense a media overload will happen this weekend, especially since the anniversary is on a Monday (although it's not like it'd be any less for this particular event if it were Wednesday).
Speaking of media...here's a link to the front pages from that day sponsored by my good friends at the Newseum.
This post could ramble on and on and on, but I'm getting a little tired. I actually get to cover another game tomorrow with another byline for Saturday's paper, so that's nice.
As far as 11 Sept 2006 goes, do what you need to do to make it through the day. If the TV, radio, newspaper and online news get to you - turn it off.
This isn't to make light, but I just thought of something that, well, it made us chuckle in my old newsroom.
Last year, on September 11, there was a near-riot on the campus of Texas State between students and local/area law enforcement. I remember sitting at my desk talking to others in the newsroom about the coverage we were working on to cover the riot and we had a line that just popped into somebody's head. "The events of September 11..."
You can see why it made us chuckle/cringe.
Well, I'll be around.
Like probably every other person in this country, I can remember, almost to the minute, what happened in my day throughout the day's events.
I noticed CNN is going to re-broadcast their unedited coverage from that day on their Web site and I plan on recording it.
When I was in Washington, D.C. in May, I had a couple of days before the Chips Quinn program started, so I used my cheap rental car and drove around D.C. and Arlington. I remember driving again and again by the Pentagon when I would go to the Marine Corps Memorial and I kept thinking about what that day must have been like at that exact spot.
I also had that same feeling as I flew into and out of Reagan Int'l Airport.
This post is going to ramble a bit. Right before I decided to make this post, I started flipping through the channels and came on A&E's United 93. I'd seen it already. I remember downloading it and watching it on my laptop one day. I'd also gone to see United 93 the weekend it came out.
I read a story this week that some people were asking CBS to edit out the profanity from their documentary 9/11 (the one from two French filmmakers that had been following the lives of a NYFD company).
How censored are we allowing ourselves to become? Are we so worried that we might actually learn our history as it was documented that we're afraid of some cursing that might burn little Johnny's ears?
Forget for a moment that I'm a journalist... how stupid is this? I've read people saying that there's no need for the profanity and it needs to be edited out - and if I remember correctly, I think my local affiliate is going to be one of the stations that runs the edited version.
Guess what? When I saw that plane hit the second tower, I said, "What the fuck?"
I also sense a media overload will happen this weekend, especially since the anniversary is on a Monday (although it's not like it'd be any less for this particular event if it were Wednesday).
Speaking of media...here's a link to the front pages from that day sponsored by my good friends at the Newseum.
This post could ramble on and on and on, but I'm getting a little tired. I actually get to cover another game tomorrow with another byline for Saturday's paper, so that's nice.
As far as 11 Sept 2006 goes, do what you need to do to make it through the day. If the TV, radio, newspaper and online news get to you - turn it off.
This isn't to make light, but I just thought of something that, well, it made us chuckle in my old newsroom.
Last year, on September 11, there was a near-riot on the campus of Texas State between students and local/area law enforcement. I remember sitting at my desk talking to others in the newsroom about the coverage we were working on to cover the riot and we had a line that just popped into somebody's head. "The events of September 11..."
You can see why it made us chuckle/cringe.
Well, I'll be around.
posted by Joe at 11:52 PM
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