MSNBC Now Replaying the TV Coverage of 9/11 Attack

[twin_ghost]

It is very interesting to watch.

[Raine]

1. Thanks ... I'm going to turn it on. nt

[AngryOldDem]

2. They used to play the five hours of coverage as it happened...

From the Today Show through about noon or 1 p.m. If you watched that unfold on TV, as I did, it was upsetting and terrifying — years later the same emotions would come straight to the fore with this. That day is seared into my memory.

That is a very, very important part of the historical record for sure…but I’m kind of relieved they don’t do that anymore.

[róisín_dubh]

3. No thank you.

I’ll be happy never to watch another minute of that as long as I live.
For 24 years, those towers were part of my daily existence, always on the horizon across the bay.

[hlthe2b]

5. Yes. 20 years is not long enough to forget the trauma of that day...

And I heard it (NPR) and watched the coverage (NBC) that day while logged onto DU.

I was already primed to remain transfixed (much to my detriment) by the Columbine shootings in 1999--when I was incapacitated at home after ankle surgery. That hour to hour to hour coverage was addictive but devastating.

I don't know how one walks away from events playing out in real-time--we probably can't and shouldn't, but I don't want to relieve it later on.

[luvs2sing]

4. Yup. No thanks from here, too.

I still remember much too clearly. A dear friend and her husband survived the WTC attack. It was many hours before we knew they were safe. I don’t ever want to relive that day again.

[GoCubsGo]

6. I'll pass, thanks.

The first time was bad enough. I don't care to live through it again. I'll be watching PBS Create today.

[underpants]

7. Me too. I hate this day.

I don’t do funerals and it’s like watching thousands of funerals.

[Shanti Shanti Shanti]

8. I'm watching packed pregame college football crowds screaming and slobbering, maybe I should change