Saturday, December 1, 2007
What Changed on 9/11
I have a new column up at E&P. Everyone remembers -- and may even retain -- a front page from a newspaper on the day after Sept. 11, 2001. But a look at a front page of The New York Times from the morning of 9/11, before everything changed, may be more revealing. Take a look yourself, http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/columns/pressingissues_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003679992
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Good column, but there was a spot that stopped me cold and I wanted to know more (though it would have interrupted your flow to have included it). Maybe you can provide those missing words here: After the conductor announced that a plane had flown into the first tower, how did people in your car react? Did they talk among themselves? Did they speculate? Did they say anything at all? I'd never read anywhere before that people in "canned" situations got such announcements and I'd be very interested to know what the group dynamic was at that time.
I'd be interested in your take on media response to the news that President Bush was projecting World War III because of Iran's purported nuclear program at the same time he had intelligence reports that the program had been shut down. Is he getting a different sort of response this time from news organizations that he and Condi Rice burned with the "smoking gun in the form of a mushroom cloud" line that they repeated so often in the run-up to the war?
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