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Title: Covering Catastrophe: Broadcast Journalists Report September 11 by Allison Gilbert, Robyn Walensky, Melinda Murphy, Phil Hirschkorn, Mitchell Stephens ISBN: 1-56625-180-X Publisher: Bonus Books Pub. Date: April, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.46 (13 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A superb testimony to the craft of reporting
Comment: Listening to Robyn Walensky's eloquent retelling of the events of that fateful day at a booksigning in Washington, DC, and reading the minute-by-minute reconstruction of what it was like to cover these events, this book brings back all of the emotion and impact of September 11th, but from the vantage point of the working broadcast journalists who brought the story into the living rooms of the country and the world. Ms. Walensky and her co-editors and contributors have done an historical service to all future generations by putting their experiences collectively into the permanent record. If time ever can dull the memory of what happened that day, take this book down from the shelf and it will all come back, with clarity and purpose. Hopefully, a similar book will be assembled on what the print reporters experienced that day. A superb recounting of the working reporter's craft.
Rating: 5
Summary: Covering Catastrophe
Comment: If you only buy one book about September 11th - this is the one to buy. There are several books out but this is the best for a moment to moment account from broadcast journalists who experienced that day from a news point of view. Everyone, from news program producers, sound techs, camera people, radio people are included in this excellent compilation of who saw what, when, how and what they felt as participants in the biggest story of this century. I'm a history nut and stayed home the day of the attack to watch TV coverage all day from all the different networks and I wanted a book that would really convey the events, the victims and the feelings and impressions of those who responded to the catasrophe of 9/11 in an accurate fashion for my children to read and, hopefully, my grandchildren to read in this one book and have some idea of what living this historical day was like. I consider this to be the most valuable book I have bought all year (and I buy lots of books).
Rating: 5
Summary: They were There
Comment: This chronicle of those who chronicled the minute by minute horror of September 11. 2001 gives the reader a contemporaneous view of the day and, in their own words, of how reporters report. It starts with the recollection of WPIX-TV, New York Helicopter Cameraman Chet Wilson:
"The morning was crystal clear and visibility stretched to the horizon. The Twin Towers loomed over Lower Manhattan as the sun came up. The morning rays bathed them in crimson. Their long shadows reached across the river to Liberty State Park in New Jersey like a gigantic sundial. WB11's news helicopter was transmitting its normal segments for the morning show. ..."
It ends with a very tired Dan Rather, Anchor, CBS News: "I got home at five-fifteen in the morning. I know from past experience that you can't just have a glass of milk and go to bed. There's always a long glide down. My head was too full. And I needed to be back at the office at nine the next morning. ..."
In between we see the human side of those trying to tell a stricken world what has happened, what is happening, and what will happen. They are like those blind people with the elephant - all each can do is report on the little piece of the beast in front of him.
The book is a cooperative humanitarian compilation, royalties are being donated to benefit the families of the victims of the September 11 terrorists attacks, including the families of the six broadcast engineers who died that day atop the World Trade Center, who are touchingly eulogized in the book's Epilogue.
Here is how the editors explain the effort: "We took the individual accounts of what journalists experienced, learned, and felt that day and wove them into a narrative. The major events are discussed in the order in which they occurred." The reader who would like to follow each contributor through his/her day may do so by using the Index of Contributors in the back of the book. Also in the back of the book are helpful maps of the besieged areas, (which I wish I would have known while I was reading the book - instead of stumbling upon them afterward) and picture bio/blurbs of the contributors. Conspicuously absent here are Bryant Gumble, Katie Couric, Matt Lauer, Diane Sawyer, and Charlie Gibson. Jane Clayson participated, as did all the major network news anchors.
Byron Pitts, CBS News Correspondent, New York, summarized The Day: "On September 11 in Lower Manhattan, everyone was just a human being. People weren't black; they weren't white; they weren't cops; they weren't firefighters; they were just human beings. I don't remember anyone yelling at anyone, anyone giving directions to do anything. I will remember September 11 as much for what went right as for what went wrong: the bravery of the firefighters, how incredibly decent people were. I was raised to believe that God is good. I believed it on September 10. I believed it on September 11. The evil that happened there - that was man-made. But the strength and the decency, the courage people showed, for me, that's what God and faith are all about. And I was reminded that tomorrow isn't promised."
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Title: Running Toward Danger: Stories Behind the Breaking News of 9/11 by Newseum, Alicia Shepard, Cathy Trost, Tom Brokaw ISBN: 0742523160 Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishing (via NBN) Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: All Available Boats: The Evacuation of Manhattan Island on September 11, 2001 by Mike Magee ISBN: 1889793116 Publisher: Spencer Books Pub. Date: 01 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Out of the Blue: A Narrative of September 11, 2001 by Richard Bernstein, The New York Times ISBN: 0805072403 Publisher: Times Books Pub. Date: 11 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Above Hallowed Ground: A Photographic Record of September 11, 2001 by Photographers of the New York City Police Department, Christopher Sweet, David Fitzpatrick, Gregory Semendinger ISBN: 0670031712 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: 22 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: What We Saw : The Events of September 11, 2001, in Words, Pictures, and Video by CBS News ISBN: 0743241908 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 20 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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