TV News Review

In 2001 when I watched the second plane hit the World Trade Center it made me weak and sick. For many weeks I lived and worked in a fog. I would come home from work and sit and watch the TV coverage. I couldn’t take my eyes off of it. I wanted answers and few of the questions were being answered. How many were dead? Who had done it? Could by some miracle they still find even one survivor in the rubble? The news networks played the tapes of the plane crashing into the Trade Center over and over and over. The laundry piled up, I ate sandwiches to I could spend the evenings watch news coverage, I forgot to pay the bills. 9/11 had a profound and lasting impact on me.

Yet, I found myself hoping the cable news networks would limit their coverage of the anniversary. I still can’t stand to see that video. It just brings back too much pain. I think the networks did a reasonably good job covering the anniversary today. Shepard Smith’s words on the Fox Report brought tears to my eyes but hope in my heart. We should never forget but we must find a way to look toward tomorrow with hope and courage.