Is anybody else watching CNN.com Pipeline?

I wish I would have known that. I wouldn't have watched it today, but I would have taped it for the future.

 

I haven't seen it on CNN but I remember the local radio guys saying after all the air traffic had been grounded that day that there was still one plane unaccounted for and nobody knew where it was. I don't remember if that was ever addressed or corrected.

 

McCain: "We're going to find out who did this and we're going to go after the bastards."

Also: "I don't think our lifestyles will be the same for a long time as they were before these attacks ... particularly as airports are concerned."

Also: "This may highlight over time a need for more human intelligence. ... For many years we haven't had the kind of human intelligence that determines motivation."

They just cut to the first images of Flight 93 crash. "No survivors."

Damn.

 

A Congressman just said, "Today our government failed the American people."

I was pretty surprised to hear that - I remembered post-9/11 being about a month-long blow job of the U.S. government. I guess it didn't become taboo to criticize until after everyone had collected their thoughts a little bit.

 

Taliban guy on bin Laden: "No one has blamed or accused him ... No change in our policy (re: Osama)."

Dude, bad moves.

 

I think this was Brown's first day on the job.

 

It wasn't supposed to be - his 10PM show was to debut 2 weeks later, but they put him on as he was also supposed to be their primary anchor of long-form breaking events like 9/11.

 

And it wasn't supposed to be Paula Zahn's first day on CNN after bolting from Fox News.

EDIT: I remember the zipper ad being 6-9 months after 9/11.

 

Also, Nic Robertson better be thanking his lucky stars for being in Kabul that day. Made him as a foreign correspondent.

Oh, the "new device" that was the videophone ...

 

I was watching a show on the History Channel about grounding the planes and they had a big chunk of time devoted to the evacuating of Anchorage, Alaska. I didn't know anything about that. Apparently they thought a South Korean jumbo jet was hijacked and they diverted the plane to some tiny town in Canada, evacuated that whole town and landed the plane. There were two F-16s escorting it with live missiles.

 

The Fox News web site not only has the streaming video of their coverage, but you can go back and replay various moments: when they first went on the air after the first plane hit, when the second plane hit, the collapse of both buidlings, etc.