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Omaha Steve

(99,071 posts)
Wed Jul 11, 2012, 09:35 PM Jul 2012

Study: Sept. 11 most memorable TV moment

Source: AP-Excite

By DAVID BAUDER

NEW YORK (AP) - The Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attack is by far the most memorable moment shared by television viewers during the past 50 years, a study released on Wednesday concluded.

The only thing that came close was President John F. Kennedy's assassination and its aftermath in 1963, but that was only for the people aged 55 and over who experienced those events as they happened instead of replayed as an historical artifact.

Sony Electronics and the Nielsen television research company collaborated on the survey. They ranked TV moments for their impact not just by asking people if they remembered watching them, but if they recalled where they watched it, who they were with and whether they talked to other people about what they had seen.

By that measure, the Sept. 11 tragedy was nearly twice as impactful as the second-ranked moment, which was the coverage of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Minutes after the first airplane struck New York's World Trade Center on a late summer morning, television networks began covering the events continuously and stayed with them for days.

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Read more: http://apnews.excite.com/article/20120711/D9VUV5AG2.html




In this Sept. 11, 2001, file photo, the twin towers of the World Trade Center burn behind the Empire State Building in New York. The Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attack is by far the most memorable moment shared by television viewers during the past 50 years, a study released on Wednesday, July 11, 2012, concluded. (AP Photo/Marty Lederhandler, File)
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Study: Sept. 11 most memorable TV moment (Original Post) Omaha Steve Jul 2012 OP
No shit XemaSab Jul 2012 #1
Even W!! KansDem Jul 2012 #2
Ain' no lie XemaSab Jul 2012 #4
Honestly, I don't ever remember seeing that photo. aquart Jul 2012 #10
Heh, was going to post those exact words. joshcryer Jul 2012 #19
I had just woken up and I turned on the internets XemaSab Jul 2012 #23
Apollo 11. bluedigger Jul 2012 #3
Beat me to it. Spitfire of ATJ Jul 2012 #5
I'd go with that too dipsydoodle Jul 2012 #15
Terror porn. uberblonde Jul 2012 #6
What an utterly uncomprehending comment. aquart Jul 2012 #11
I don't think the poster was saying that the immediate impression was go to war, JusticeForAll Jul 2012 #13
I'm only 54 and I remember the assasination of the President slackmaster Jul 2012 #7
It was your generation's Reichstag Fire. Nostradammit Jul 2012 #9
Putting you on ignore. aquart Jul 2012 #12
You have a high threshold for right-wing talking points, I've noticed. Nostradammit Jul 2012 #16
I got the term "My generation's Pearl Harbor" from my grandmother, who was 93 at the time slackmaster Jul 2012 #21
Here is my list The Sushi Bandit Jul 2012 #8
Out of curiousity dipsydoodle Jul 2012 #17
Kent State was not shown on TV live the way the other events were csziggy Jul 2012 #24
Good list! csziggy Jul 2012 #25
I saw that through my Telescope!! The Sushi Bandit Jul 2012 #31
Now THAT is cool! csziggy Jul 2012 #33
Challenger stands out for me gvstn Jul 2012 #27
my memory of this is a strange blur, i was about 7 years old at the time JI7 Jul 2012 #28
@ The Sushi Bandit, nice list may3rd Jul 2012 #30
Me too lunatica Jul 2012 #32
9/11 was just so horrible, i wish we would have something similar to a Moon Landing JI7 Jul 2012 #14
I didn't see the Moon landing live because my family was in the process of moving back home after... slackmaster Jul 2012 #22
Action Films are always big box office! KatChatter Jul 2012 #18
How about Jack Paar walking off the Tonight Show? RVN VET Jul 2012 #20
Karl Rove must be so proud. yurbud Jul 2012 #26
Bullshit. The world watched Neil Armstrong may3rd Jul 2012 #29

KansDem

(28,498 posts)
2. Even W!!
Wed Jul 11, 2012, 09:46 PM
Jul 2012

...who said later that he was "told about it" and no one in the media asked him to explain the descrepency.

joshcryer

(62,265 posts)
19. Heh, was going to post those exact words.
Thu Jul 12, 2012, 06:17 AM
Jul 2012

I was downloading stuff on IRC when someone started "YELLING" about it in the chat room. Turned on the TV in time to see the second plane hit...

XemaSab

(60,212 posts)
23. I had just woken up and I turned on the internets
Thu Jul 12, 2012, 11:31 AM
Jul 2012

I saw my friend online and I said "You were in my dream last night" and she said "You HAVE to go turn on the TV."

I saw both towers collapse.

 

Spitfire of ATJ

(32,723 posts)
5. Beat me to it.
Wed Jul 11, 2012, 09:59 PM
Jul 2012


Prior to the launch the astronauts were discussing what should be the first words and one of the ones that wasn't going on the flight said, "I you had any balls you'd scream 'Oh my God! What's that?' and cut your mic."

dipsydoodle

(42,239 posts)
15. I'd go with that too
Thu Jul 12, 2012, 05:21 AM
Jul 2012

but allow for the fact I'm UK. That was watched worldwide as a highly significant first.

aquart

(69,014 posts)
11. What an utterly uncomprehending comment.
Thu Jul 12, 2012, 04:37 AM
Jul 2012

I am often stunned by the blisteringly smug stupidity that finds its way here.

The only thing we thought about for over two weeks was the possibility of survivors and what we could do to help.

GOD! That remark was disgusting! Slimy.

JusticeForAll

(1,222 posts)
13. I don't think the poster was saying that the immediate impression was go to war,
Thu Jul 12, 2012, 04:58 AM
Jul 2012

in absence of sympathy and concern for the loss. Everyone was hoping and counting on survivors.

However after so much repetition, the hope faded and the drumbeats of war and revenge soon followed.

I don't think there's anything slimy or disgusting - I could not believe how many were in support of war during that time and it was especially due to the broadcast and recast of such violent horrible images.

Right or wrong, still sad, and totally a tragedy no matter in what light it's viewed.

 

slackmaster

(60,567 posts)
7. I'm only 54 and I remember the assasination of the President
Wed Jul 11, 2012, 10:23 PM
Jul 2012

9/11/2001 was just my generation's Pearl Harbor.

 

slackmaster

(60,567 posts)
21. I got the term "My generation's Pearl Harbor" from my grandmother, who was 93 at the time
Thu Jul 12, 2012, 10:43 AM
Jul 2012

She knew what she was talking about, and she was no right winger.

Over Thanksgiving dinner that year, she said the event made her feel that she might have lived too long, that she wasn't meant to have seen it. She passed away three years later.

I don't buy into the paranoid "xIHOP" conspiracy theories.

ETA I found it very shocking personally, after being raised to believe that nobody would be so foolish as to do such a thing. But the attackers proved that even reasonably intelligent people can do things that are utterly insane, and a lot of people have paid the price for their hubris.

The attacks on the USA turned out to have been a very, very bad idea.

The Sushi Bandit

(5,560 posts)
8. Here is my list
Wed Jul 11, 2012, 10:30 PM
Jul 2012

1st Landing on the moon (saw it live)
Kennedy assassaination
Challanger explosion (saw it live)
The Beatles on Sullivan
World Trade Tower Falling (saw it live)
Nixon's farewell speach (saw it live)
and i almost forgot: Viking Mars Landers first images

csziggy

(34,120 posts)
24. Kent State was not shown on TV live the way the other events were
Thu Jul 12, 2012, 11:55 AM
Jul 2012

It was covered by the newspapers and the iconic photos were printed and shown on TV after the fact.

The events the poster listed were either televised live or coverage was picked up shortly after the live happening.

csziggy

(34,120 posts)
25. Good list!
Thu Jul 12, 2012, 11:58 AM
Jul 2012

I saw TV coverage all of those events, too. We must be of a similar age.

I'd add Comet Shoemaker Levy hitting Jupiter - I watched that one live, too.

csziggy

(34,120 posts)
33. Now THAT is cool!
Sat Jul 14, 2012, 12:26 AM
Jul 2012

I've thought about getting a telescope but it is not one of my priorities, especially these days as my eyes age (along with the rest of my body). Plus I live in the deep south - not a lot of good nights for viewing.

gvstn

(2,805 posts)
27. Challenger stands out for me
Thu Jul 12, 2012, 01:48 PM
Jul 2012

9/11 is second only in that it wasn't so immediately shocking as the Challenger explosion. I was both live but Challenger still jumps out at me as the most shocking TV moment.

JI7

(89,177 posts)
28. my memory of this is a strange blur, i was about 7 years old at the time
Thu Jul 12, 2012, 05:29 PM
Jul 2012

which i think should be old enough to know better. but i mostly remember teachers and others talking about the teacher on there. there was sadness which is what i remember but it was when i got a little older where i really understood what happened.

 

may3rd

(593 posts)
30. @ The Sushi Bandit, nice list
Thu Jul 12, 2012, 06:12 PM
Jul 2012

I also remember Sojourner landing on mars.
The path finder mission.

Sammy Hagar was impressed and saw how it was going to play out



The shows starts again in august.
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/
24 days and a wake up

lunatica

(53,410 posts)
32. Me too
Fri Jul 13, 2012, 10:25 PM
Jul 2012

I started watching the WTC attack only a few minutes after the first airplane hit. Before anyone was even thinking about any kind of terrorist attack. Every few minutes there was another announcement of passenger planes gone missing while in flight. No one could find them.

But it was when Jack Kennedy was assassinated that we were thrown into total shock which I think surpassed even 9/11. That was truly the unthinkable for us. Hell, the Presidential Limousine was just a convertible, and no one even thought twice of having the President and First Lady exposed like that.

The world sure has changed.

JI7

(89,177 posts)
14. 9/11 was just so horrible, i wish we would have something similar to a Moon Landing
Thu Jul 12, 2012, 05:04 AM
Jul 2012

that could maybe take First Place among those who remember 9/11.

there have been great things that have happened like the first black president, the changes in the middle east etc. but i think we need something that is outside of politics like the moon landing.

do those who remember the moon landing still put 9/11 above that ? it could be because 9/11 was so horrible and more recent . and our life changed so much because of it.

 

slackmaster

(60,567 posts)
22. I didn't see the Moon landing live because my family was in the process of moving back home after...
Thu Jul 12, 2012, 10:52 AM
Jul 2012

...spending most of a year in another state for my dad's work.

We were westbound on Interstate 8 in Imperial County, CA when the landing happened. We were going through a punishing rain storm, remnants of a tropical cyclone.

We came to a clearing between squalls. There was blue sky above us for a few minutes. That was when we heard "Tranquility Base here, the Eagle has landed!" on the radio.

It was a very moving moment. We got back to our home a couple of hours later, and watched the first footsteps on the Moon live.

 

KatChatter

(194 posts)
18. Action Films are always big box office!
Thu Jul 12, 2012, 05:58 AM
Jul 2012

See Live and in HD on the TeeVee the biggest block buster of all time!

Better then anything Hollywood could legally do except for snuff flicks!

Planes crashing into buildings!

Skyscrapers falling down!

People Jumping off off buildings !

and so much more!

Why the GOOD Stuff is so good we repeat it over and over again every five minutes for the next week!

As a BONUS we blame it all on BROWN SKINNED ISLAMIC EVIL DEWERS over and over again just to make sure that America will be whipped into a frenzy behind any sort of PAYBACK that will be issued by the current pResident giving him some sort of legitimacy after his questionable way of getting in to office.

Just to make sure the residuals keep coming in you the people will be reminded over and over again about 9/11 for well, at least the next 70 years or so or until the next better action film comes on TeeVee and kicks it down in the ratings.

Why maybe if we the 'Liberal' Media encourage and give legitimacy to groups like the TeaBaggers and their nonsense why some folks just might be so enraged that they may just be motivated to seek a second amendment solution against that current "Non-White" Muslim President...what a TeeVee Spectacular that would be to see!

RVN VET

(492 posts)
20. How about Jack Paar walking off the Tonight Show?
Thu Jul 12, 2012, 09:02 AM
Jul 2012

The Army-McCarthy hearings; the Watergate hearings; the last out of the 1955 World Series.

Sadly, the pre-9/11 statement by Bush to the CIA guy who presented him with documentary evidence that 9/11 was coming was not televised. Remember: "Well, now you've covered your ass, so you can go."?

Also, one that sticks painfully in my craw, President Reagan telling the American people that "Government isn't the answer to our problems; Government is the cause of our problems." -- but I guess that wasn't broadcast live.

 

may3rd

(593 posts)
29. Bullshit. The world watched Neil Armstrong
Thu Jul 12, 2012, 05:47 PM
Jul 2012

Those responsible for this "poll" are shallow in history or just born under the space shuttle shadow.

jmo
weak, meaningless poll




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