CNN Will Replay 9/11 Coverage (Really?)
Charles Johnson
Fri Aug 25, 2006 at 5:47 pm PDT • Views: 1,092
For the fifth anniversary of the 9/11 Islamic terrorist attacks, CNN.com is going to replay their coverage.
NEW YORK - CNN will mark the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks by replaying on the Internet the cable network’s coverage of that day’s events.
Viewers can watch how events unfolded starting at 8:30 a.m., minutes before the first reports of an airplane hitting the World Trade Center. The feed will run in real time, as the network showed it five years ago, until midnight.
For the day, CNN will make its online video service, CNN Pipeline, available for free. Normally, viewers pay $2.95 a month or $24.95 a year for four separate video feeds.
Online viewers will be able to watch live reports of memorial services through one of the feeds. So that viewers won’t accidentally stumble upon graphic footage from 2001, the replay feed will be covered with a notice instructing users to click only if they want to watch.
“Our users may choose to view the stream of coverage from Sept. 11, 2001, or live coverage of memorial services at Ground Zero, or they may click through the numerous interactive elements on the site,” said David Payne, senior vice president and general manager of CNN.com. “They have the power to determine the best way for them to remember the anniversary.”
It will be interesting to see if they replay this report from the Palestinian Authority, one of the only existing records of the celebrations that took place on that day, after Palestinians threatened news agencies into pulling all their photos and video from the wires.
Frank says: