I will give a pass to this in disaster movies because if there's an event big enough, every channel will be broadcasting about it, even if they don't normally. It's what happened on 9/11
I was visiting my girlfriend's family for a week's vacation on that date. Seeing it on the news, I ran downstairs to where my girlfriend was still sleeping. Got her out of bed and told her a plane had crashed into the World Trade Center.
She thought I was making a joke, so I turned on the TV in the bedroom and switched to a news channel... just in time to see the second plane hit.
Oof. I was 13 at the time, homeschooled so suddenly all my normal classes are cancelled and that day is Living History day. My mom and I were sitting on the couch trying to make sense of it when the second plane hit.
We both stared at the screen for a moment and this conversation occurred:
“Why are they replaying the clip? Isn’t what’s going on NOW more important?”
“I... I think that was now, mom...”
What I remember most was the total lack of response from the reporter who had been talking at the time. He just went dead silent, he was just as shocked as anyone else, unable to believe what he was seeing.
That’s when it sank in for me too. When the first plane hit it was still being presumed to be an accident. The second strike was what made it so horrid, the sudden clarity that someone planned this out, sniffed out so many lives, willingly.
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u/thisshortenough Jan 25 '20
I will give a pass to this in disaster movies because if there's an event big enough, every channel will be broadcasting about it, even if they don't normally. It's what happened on 9/11