American Television’s Live Coverage of the 9/11 Attacks

Journalism on the Screen

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

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This book analyzes the narratives and news coverage of 9/11 across ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, and Fox News—the five most important American television news networks at the time. Though America’s collective memory of the key events of 9/11 have solidified, Paul Arras demonstrates how muddled and chaotic the experience was due to the unique difficulties television journalists faced during the event. By examining that morning’s media coverage, Arras assesses the quality of the live journalism, suggesting key differences in the television experience for audiences watching different networks and observing the consequences of differing styles of communication among anchors and other journalists. Approaching 9/11 as a unique television experience in American history, Arras locates and identifies the building blocks of America’s memory of 9/11 while also revisiting many dramatic television moments that have been forgotten. Ultimately, this book reveals the ways in which television coverage shaped the cultural meaning, collective memory, and language of 9/11 in ways that continue to resonate throughout American culture.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2024-04-10
Mått159 x 236 x 25 mm
Vikt553 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor240
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781666932638

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Prologue: The Congressman Who Missed 9/11Introduction: American Television on September 11, 2001Chapter One: 8:46-9:02—The First Plane Crash and the First QuestionsChapter Two: 9:03-9:10—The Second Plane Crash and Its ImplicationsChapter Three: 9:11-9:39—Struggling for Clarity and Word from the PresidentChapter Four: 9:30-9:58—Smoke and Confusion in WashingtonChapter Five: 9:59-10:10—The South Tower FallsChapter Six: 10:11-10:27—Between the Two CollapsesChapter Seven: 10:28-10:36—The North Tower FallsChapter Eight: 10:37-10:59—Unaccounted for Planes and a Report from PennsylvaniaChapter Nine: 11:00-11:59—Confusion and AlarmChapter Ten: 12:00-1:15—Questions Resolved and Bush Speaks AgainConclusion: 9/11 Television and American Memory

“Paul Arras’s new book is a remarkable achievement of structure, scholarship, and storytelling. I’ve never read anything quite like it. It’s a riveting procedural tale, describing how the exhibition and interpretations of a central event in American history were created, written, performed, and presented live, as the event was happening. Arras examines five distinct 4½ hour-long television programs as they played, simultaneously, over five different networks on the morning and early afternoon of September 11, 2001. Sober media analysis is embedded within an elegantly constructed chronicle that unfolds like a novel.”