September 11 Video Archive
The Internet Archive has collected a compendium of live television feeds from prior, during and after the 9/11 attacks. Putting aside the disastrous foreign and domestic policy that these awful events unleashed within the USA and upon the World, it is numbing to watch the live coverage unfold as the realisation grows that the initial crash was the harbinger of a much bigger set of coordinated events.
Tags: september 11
May 15, 2008 at 9:31 pm
A couple of years ago Vanity Fair put the tapes recorded of the phone calls going to and from NORAD.
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2006/08/norad200608
Pretty harrowing stuff.
May 15, 2008 at 9:57 pm
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2006/08/norad200608
NORAD tapes from the day.
May 16, 2008 at 7:05 pm
This is still incredible isn’t it. Incredible that it could happen, I mean. I’ve got a vivid memory of the day. I watched the movie of the story of the flight that crashed en route to DC… equally tragic.
May 16, 2008 at 10:16 pm
I remember when I visited Baghdad seeing how the remote controlled cruise missiles always had made a perpendicular clean entry into all the buildings.
Apparantly they are programmed to turn at the last moment to hit the building at a precisely 90 degree angle to avoid a glancing blow and maximise penetration.
What is fascinating is that these two planes seem to have performed the exact same manevour. A rapid last second bank and turn to hit the two buildings precisely perpendicular and close to deep center.
Not bad for two pilots whose only flying experience was on simulators - simulators where they had loudly and repeatedly expressed a desire to only learn how to fly in air and not take off and land (the ladies were protesting too much, I think)
May 17, 2008 at 6:46 am
Mardy- yes, it is incredible. But it’s also incredible that similar (in terms of loss of life) terrorist attacks happened in the past and nobody really batted an eye.
It’s amazing just how important landmarks are, I guess?
May 17, 2008 at 12:34 pm
I wondered how long before somebody posted a “who cares its only America” comment.
Take a bow Ari, you have been awarded the low life of the week award.
May 17, 2008 at 6:17 pm
That’s ridiculous, BigBruv. That’s not what Ari means at all - rather, Ari’s comment is about the way in which media and public attention is focused on big events through ideological lenses - just like everything else in this world. I don’t think anyone would argue that any death is sad, particualry deaths which are not chosen or natural, however the fact that such deaths only gain a public acknowldegement when they are spoken of within frameworks and societies that we already recognise. This is valid, and I would guarantee there are time when you would find this kind of media analysis extremely useful - if the news only reported “Klark’s” good works and ignored her bad, for example.
I feel Ari is correct in reading 9/11 as a “landmark,” with all that this entails. With this, I suggest we move the discission away from high/low binaries in relation to life and towards discussion of the function of media in relation to world events.
May 17, 2008 at 6:41 pm
Woops, that sounded a tad wanky
Bigbruv, it’s like this. Ari didn’t actually say, “who cares, it’s only America,” but you read it into his comment, right? And I think I see why - correct me if I’m wrong (really, please do) but I think it’s
because Ari’s comment reads into a wider discourse of running down America because of their actions in the Middle East. Essentially, you recognised Ari’s comment as part of this argument, and so assumed his thoughts were headed in this direction.
Is that right?
Anyway, my point - and, I think, Ari’s - is about the way in which news media, for example, participates in discouses which are similarly recognisable. For example: the argument that big, violent events are more worthy of our attention that a day at the flower show. Or that an event in another country is of more relevance to us as NZers when NZers are involved. In this case, we’re discussing the idea that our news media reflects a preference for reporting events in countries with which we have some political and ideological association, and by doing this, the response of
the population influenced by that media is to regard reported events as “more important.”
Would you agree with this, or do you disagree?
May 20, 2008 at 8:40 am
Too many big words, Robyn, and complicated concepts. You scared bruv off
May 20, 2008 at 11:25 am
That sucks! Come back bruv! I won’t bite!
May 20, 2008 at 6:53 pm
So, BigBruv, as well as being a proven liar, you also deliberately misinterpret what people say, in order to score what you perceive to be a ‘point’ off them…
If anyone’s going to decide who should be given a ‘lowlife’ award, somehow I don’t it should be you, old son!
June 5, 2008 at 5:18 am
Does anyone here know a third building (not the pentagon) collapsed that day?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58h0LjdMry0