CNN Pipeline to replay 9/11 coverage
Cory Bergman August 25th, 2006
On the fifth anniversary of 9/11, Pipeline will stream CNN’s coverage of the terrorist attacks as they unfolded five years ago, matched to the exact time of day. The stream will begin at 8:30 a.m., just minutes before the first report of a plane hitting the World Trade Center — and CNN.com is making Pipeline free for the day. Cool idea. Press release…
PRESS RELEASE — For the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, CNN Pipeline will replay CNN’s coverage from that day in time with how it happened five years ago. Offered free on Monday, the coverage begins at 8:30 a.m. (ET), minutes before the first news reports of a plane hitting the World Trade Center in New York City.
Additionally, CNN Pipeline will feature live reports from memorial services in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Pennsylvania. CNN.com also will offer online users unrivaled, comprehensive reports, video and audio clips and other elements to show how life in the United States changed over the past five years.
“No other network has the resources in place to allow a full-scale, unprecedented replay of its original 9/11 coverage in the same time sequence as it actually happened,” said David Payne, senior vice president and general manager of CNN.com. “With the flexibility of CNN Pipeline, we can offer that to our online users, giving them the power to choose more elements of news and information for them to best remember the anniversary.”
CNN Pipeline includes hundreds of archived video clips of CNN coverage as well as a full, on-going video stream of CNN’s coverage from Sept. 11, 2001. To be sensitive to those online users who do not wish to see the replay, CNN Pipeline requires those who want to see the footage to click on Pipe 4.
For live reports, CNN Pipeline anchor Richard Lui will report from Ground Zero. CNN Pipeline will also provide video on demand of reports filed by CNN anchors and correspondents around the globe.
CNN.com’s in-depth special section, which appears at http://www.CNN.com/September11 and launches Wednesday, Sept. 6, includes articles about how life in America changed since the terrorist attacks, a CNNRadio podcast that provides a narrative montage of events starting from the attacks to the start of war in Afghanistan, image galleries from Sept. 11 and from the war in Afghanistan and an image gallery/timeline detailing reconstruction efforts in New York City.
The special section also includes a memorial to the nearly 3,000 people who died in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Pennsylvania during the terrorist attacks. The September 11 memorial, which appears at http://us.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/memorial/index.html, serves as an evolving record of those who died and a place for readers to build a living memorial for them.
CNN.com continues to solicit “I-Reports,” user-generated text, images, audio and video, for possible use on-air and inclusion on CNN Exchange, a comprehensive user-generated content destination on CNN.com that features user-submitted audio, video and text and also allows users to interact directly with the site’s news reports, commentaries and polls. Viewers can submit material through a “Send Your I-Report” link at CNN.com or by e-mail at ireport@cnn.com.
CNN.com also includes the companion interactive site to the latest CNN Presents documentary, In the Footsteps of bin Laden. Reported by CNN’s chief international correspondent Christiane Amanpour, this unprecedented oral history about the most notorious terrorist of modern times features 21 first-person accounts from the people who knew Osama bin Laden best.
The site, located at www.CNN.com/binladen, features numerous interactive elements that delve into the history and mystery of Osama bin Laden, peek behind the scenes of In the Footsteps of bin Laden and provide opportunities for users to view video and images and to submit feedback, I-Reports and other content.
As the first Internet site dedicated to 24-hour news coverage, CNN.com ranks as a leading online news and information site, attracting an average of 23 million unique users each month. Launched in 1995, CNN.com draws from the resources of CNN Worldwide to provide relevant, up-to-the minute news and information. CNN.com features the latest multimedia technologies, from video streaming to audio packages to searchable archives of news features and background information.
12 Comments Add your own
1. cin | August 26th, 2006 at 9:05 pm
for one brief moment … cnn remind us that they once had a brilliant newsteam. Remember Aaron Brown. One of the best.
2. Anonymous | August 26th, 2006 at 9:50 pm
CNN is just robbing itself of money by making Pipeline a subscription service rather than an ad-supported service. A single video ad per usage would generate far more income than the subscription model does, given how much more traffic the service would have. Do the math yourself. CNN is nuts.
3. Safran | August 27th, 2006 at 3:03 pm
Agreed on Pipeline. Good service, cool as heck platform - not a subscription model.
That aside, good for them for doing this on 9/11. Watching contemporaneous accounts of the day reminds me how well journalism did that day. On a day of madness, the media largely kept its cool.
Odd that the hysteria gets cranked up the most on stories that deserve it least.
4. William J. Urquhart | September 11th, 2006 at 12:39 pm
Helpless; Remembering Five Years Later 9/11/2006
The frustration I feel watching CNN’s coverage of 9/11 is unmentionable. I listen to reporters and witnesses trying to understand the events as they happen. We were so unaware of what was going on, yet, as little as we knew, everyone was sure whatever effects there were would endure beyond that day. We knew our lives had changed, and we knew it instantly. How I wish we could return to our bubble. A time when we felt safe. Safe, not just from enemies. A time when domestic spying was a memory of the Cold War, civil rights, and the anti-war movements. A time when anti-war movements themselves were aged stories told by baby-boomer parents. A time when metal detectors in airports were not coupled with machine guns. A time when the numbers nine and eleven reminded us more often of our police and not our greatest insecurity.
Less than thirty minutes after the second plane, CNN first states that it might be an act of “terrorism.” That term would never have the same meaning. What was once considered an act of a weak and desperate person is now considered the intricate organization of a popular and well-financed movement. It is a “brave new world” for America. We fight an enemy for that which it hates about us; freedom. Our enemy uses our strengths against us. We are big and in clear view, so they stay small and hidden. They blend into our communities, enjoying the freedom we provide. Our education is superior, so they go to our schools and learn to walk and talk like us. In doing so, they attack what we love. They provoke us into letting go of freedom. The attacks of “Aftermath-9-11” (as I call it) are their bombs. Spying, secret prisons, prisoners with no charges, the Patriot Act, presidential powers, classified information, government lying, war.
Five years, and I do not feel safe. Five years, and still no “UBL.” Now they try to tell us it would not do much if they caught him. I try to imagine what would have happened had President Bush told us that in his first speech after 9/11, when he wowed the country. ‘We don’t really need to get him.’ He never would have, because he knows it is not true. The stated goal of National Security Strategy is to decrease Al-Qaeda’s connectedness and capabilities. Removing the head would cause chaos and power struggling throughout the entire network. Five years later, and no subsequent attack on US soil. Five years later, and an administration with repeated failing grades from the 9/11 Commission boasts and brags of success. Five years later, and there is no hard evidence that current safety standards would have prevented 9/11. Five years later, and American’s die daily at the hands of a vastly expanded Al-Qaeda. Five years later, and it is time for a change.
This letter is in itself a petition, rather a calling demand. Our war on terror requires revisiting from a blank slate. It is corrupt and serves priorities in which the protection of freedom is not the highest. For it is that sole mission, in of itself, that will keep us safe. If we are to trust people to our safety, why not your neighbor? Five years later, and we remember. We remember that one plane failed to reach its target on that day. And it failed, because free citizens decided that their nation’s last and greatest defense is us. The big “U,” “S,” that has not only protected and blindly served our interest since our birth, but is the sole party responsible for our Constitution. Today we thank those proved to the world; Americans would gladly die before being part of the destruction of freedom. Five years later, we pledge to never cease in the struggle for freedom.
William J. Urquhart
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