9/11 Documentary

Right now they're currently showing a documentary on the events on 9/11 on Channel 4. It's currently 7.15pm, do you think it's too early to be showing a programme of this nature, considering that most children won't have even gone to bed yet?

You really should name the channel rather than saying they. I doubt most children would be watching Channel 4, especially on a Saturday night.

Children probably have no idea what 9/11 was. Adolescents will. If the parents don't want them to watch it, watch something else. There is no obligation to watch it.
In fact, Inside the World Trade Center was aired at 7pm on a Saturday in 2006.

Of course not, it's reflecting a recent historic event, there should be no watershead on News Documentaries.

There has been some swearing (eff words mainly) edited from this programme but the subtitles have the swearing included. Should a programme like this worry about swearing, I'd say probably not. I remember on the 12th September 2001, The Big Breakfast was cancelled and a Channel 4 News Special showed amateur footage, much like this programme is, and they included people's natural raw reaction which was to swear.

This is a really interesting programme which is using 99% amateur footage and the original audio to show how people reacted on that day and what they were thinking and the false information people were spreading. It is in 4:3. It makes a nice change for a programme to be in the same format as the archive footage that it relies on. It is also unusual to see this kind of footage without news channel graphics all over it.

And lets of course remember, that it went out live on September 11th, and in the US one channel was live from it's studio which backs out onto the newsroom, and when plane 2 hit, there was a very audiable expeletive (which has since been over dubbed with gasps on the website) heard in the background/. Totally exceptable reaction under the circumstances.

First time I watched that programme on Channel Four, and found it interesting and difficult to watch in equal measure. Just proves how many cameras of various quality is filming a place like New York at any one time.
I found the talkback from the WNYW Fox 5 news helicopter back to the gallery very interesting, with at one point the reporter trying to get the ENG unit down at World Trade to answer him.
I wonder if the footage from Times Square was taken by a PSC from across the road in the GMA studios, thinking how significant the story could become (if it was, it was great piece of forethought)

This is the second time I've seen this documentary and it always touches me inside. Hearing the reaction from those in the apartments as the events unfolded just emphasises a little what it was like to be there on that day.

I've always wanted a documentary on how the news was reported that day. I know there are thousands of clips online but I'm sure they would be recording backstage as well. I think Sky do that a lot now with big stories.

On the first anniversary BBC Choice showed a one hour compilaton of News 24's coverage...don't think it was ever shown again though.

I thought the BBC News 24 coverage had been lost? Was it lost after the first anniversary?

No one seemed worried about that on the day itself ? BBC 1's Children's programmes were displaced to BBC 2, but I'm sure in most UK households that were occupied TVs were tuned to the coverage on BBC 1 and ITV 1 that afternoon.

I think it was the BBC World coverage that was famously lost (unless of course both channels were running the same thing) but in the end it was just misfiled and was found again. Maybe it went missing as a result of being taken out for the one year anniversary.


Incidently archive.org has all the TV coverage from the BBC, CNN and the 4 big US networks from just before the attacks through to September 13th:
http://www.archive.org/details/sept_11_tv_archive