9/11 20th anniversary poll

Yes, since 1980.

You’d be surprised, the CBC had some pretty decent coverage of 9/11. That was one of the networks I remember seeing on that fateful day, the other being ABC.

No, they’re just as overdramatic as Fox. And also, they had NBC’s feed that day.

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I would prefer the BBC, or maybe a mix of the sources as a lot of them seem to be politically biased and just pandering to 1 side (and depending on what people support anyway they believe it). Not sure how it was on 9/11. I was in a car driving to Castle Maurick for a great company night out. What should have been a great very luxurious company outing became a disaster.
And actually when I heard about on the car radio I immediately thought about the B-25 which struck the Empire State building.

Well I was here before me and everyone raced home.

Castle Maurick: the most diverse castle in Brabant, The Netherlands (kasteel-maurick.nl)

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Most, if not all the networks, were pretty decent in their coverage of 9/11 (even leaving the biases out for the most part). I would personally say the ABC and CBC had the best coverage, though Fox covered the Pentagon attack quite extensively too.

I saw ABC and CBC on that fateful day.

On FOX Denmark are communists and still a part of the Warsaw pact. So I think we should be careful with starting a discussion on US internal policies in this Forum.

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Yeah, and even righties like myself are currently looking for Fox alternatives.

But anyhoo, this is a discussion of my 20th anniversary stream of 9/11 news coverage. I put up a straw poll for you ladies and gents to vote on which network to use for the stream.

These were pre-attack broadcasts from almost each network listed in the poll (the BBC’s absent here). Judge for yourselves:

ABC:

CBC:

CBS:

CNN:

FOX:

NBC:

I know, and that is fine, but it could easily drift in another direction in the comments and that could be heated and emotionel. Just see how the railway topic ended up discussing octanes :wink:

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lol, I’m the moderator of this topic here. :slight_smile: I’m streaming not just for the purposes of getting some historical perspective, but also to relate what you (if you were alive, obviously) and I saw that day.

Ok we will see what happens. Anyway, I need a post to flag for my badge collection, so I will stay tuned in. :denmark::heart::us:

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Let’s hope it doesn’t come to that :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

OK, I will make that post then, Danish is the Dutch language but written backwards when drunk :smiling_imp: :smiling_imp: :innocent:

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:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :bear:

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Weren’t they the people who sold the americans the lie of WMD’s for a war with iraq?

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Many major networks did, not just CNN.

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I’m now leaning towards ABC, since I see a lot of praise for them.

Personally, on that day, I was watching Fox Kids in the afternoon. They had some girly cartoon on. Then some text appeared at the top and they cut to an emergency news broadcast.

Later in the evening, my parents sent me to the grocery store to get something, and the streets were like a ghost town. No cars, no people, eerie silence. Even the lady in the grocery store had one of those small portable radios and was listening to the news.

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Danke weel, You are so understanding, and yes, dutch are rather easy read (not spoken) by Danes.

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What’s wrong with spoken Dutch? :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

Back home in Lewiston, I woke up early that day, so early that I still remember many of the morning news stories from ABC and CBC – the Andrea Yates trial, Michael Jordan’s potential return to basketball, talks of a new coalition in the Canadian Parliament, problems faced by students studying abroad…

And then, the attacks happened. I already knew it was a terrorist attack before the second plane hit (the big giveaway was the very clear sky that day over NYC). Just as I was discussing that with my sister, we saw the second plane crash live.

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Nothing - just broken tongues

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Here in Denmark it was afternoon, and my wife called that a plane had hit WTC and I thought of a small Cessna or so. After that we followed live, and I can still feel the horror I felt when the towers went down.

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