Current Events > for how long was 9/11 actively shown on american television after the event?

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just curious about this lmao

For fucking ever
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I still see it.
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I'll let you know when it stops.
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like several days non stop, then it was still all that was talked about for a few weeks
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I remember even channels like QVC and Weather Channel covered it non-stop. ESPN literally just broadcasted ABC News.
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billcom6 posted...

like several days non stop, then it was still all that was talked about for a few weeks

This is pretty accurate in terms of the question asked.
I'd say about a solid month and a half to two months.
However Bush himself was more or less silent on the issue.
We heard more from Tony Blare at the time.

Having said all that, I agree with everyone who says, we still haven't stopped talking about it.
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Coffeebeanz posted...

I remember even channels like QVC and Weather Channel covered it non-stop. ESPN literally just broadcasted ABC News.

Actually, that was a thing. For anyone who noticed, it was the first time it became clearly obvious as to how homogenized the broadcasting industry had become.
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At least its okay to joke about it now.
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au_gold posted...

At least its okay to joke about it now.

"...Too soon..."

But in all honesty, "Never let a good crisis go to waste" is more appropriate.
The US government used that event to do whatever it wanted, and that is how we are in the state that we are now, globally.
We took an already unstable region and pulled the rug out of whatever sense of stability it had.
It was all predictable and predicted.
It was such as despicable reaction to a despicable event.
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After 3 days I was bitching that they need to shut up about it. Little did I know, they would never shut up about it...
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They still show it every morning as part of Donald Trumps Make America Great Again By Never Letting Them Forget initiative.

Remember that episode of South Park where Sharon was just watching the tv like she was in a trance for days on end? It was like that
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SiO4 posted...

Coffeebeanz posted...

I remember even channels like QVC and Weather Channel covered it non-stop. ESPN literally just broadcasted ABC News.

Actually, that was a thing. For anyone who noticed, it was the first time it became clearly obvious as to how homogenized the broadcasting industry had become.

Yeah, as I recall literally every station was carrying news, so you saw what parent company was behind each station because you really only had like 5 or 6 different channels broadcast across 70 stations or whatever.
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Not that long really.
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The Top Crusader posted...

SiO4 posted...

Coffeebeanz posted...

I remember even channels like QVC and Weather Channel covered it non-stop. ESPN literally just broadcasted ABC News.

Actually, that was a thing. For anyone who noticed, it was the first time it became clearly obvious as to how homogenized the broadcasting industry had become.

Yeah, as I recall literally every station was carrying news, so you saw what parent company was behind each station because you really only had like 5 or 6 different channels broadcast across 70 stations or whatever.

True. And which, to this day, explains a lot.
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For a couple days.
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A - "knock knock"

B - "who's there?"

A - "9/11"

B - "9/11 who?"

A - "i thought you said you will never forget?"
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nicklebro posted...

I'll let you know when it stops.

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I was a kid, so I found most of my channels were safe, but I remember my mom complaining that literally every "grown up" channel was just showing 9/11 stuff again and again.

That's when she started watching Golden Girls reruns like crazy, because the channel that ran them was just about the only one not showing 9/11
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599 US years
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Doom_Art posted...

I was a kid, so I found most of my channels were safe, but I remember my mom complaining that literally every "grown up" channel was just showing 9/11 stuff again and again.

That's when she started watching Golden Girls reruns like crazy, because the channel that ran them was just about the only one not showing 9/11

I'm pretty sure even the kids channels were showing news the first couple days or so.

27_Sandman_40 posted...

Coffeebeanz posted...

I remember even channels like QVC and Weather Channel covered it non-stop. ESPN literally just broadcasted ABC News.

You know, it sort of begs the question whether or not those channels did it cause it was the right thing to do or because they knew they were losing a shit ton of ratings.

I thought it was kind of silly, because if you have ESPN and TNN and USA and QVC, etc, then you also had the cable news networks and the broadcast channels, so I'm not sure what the point was, really. I mean its super important and I guess ESPN isn't going to have a lot to say about sports during the crisis, but Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network and TNN could've kept their cartoons and Dukes of Hazard reruns going so people weren't FORCED to watch.
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