American Television's Live Coverage of the 9/11 Attacks - by Paul Arras (Hardcover)

About the Book

This book analyzes the narratives and news coverage of 9/11 across ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, and Fox News, arguing that television coverage shaped the cultural meaning, collective memory, and language of 9/11 in ways that continue to resonate throughout American culture.

Book Synopsis

This book analyzes the narratives and news coverage of 9/11 across ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, and Fox News, arguing that television coverage shaped the cultural meaning, collective memory, and language of 9/11 in ways that continue to resonate throughout American culture.

Review Quotes

"Paul Arras's new book is a remarkable achievement of structure, scholarship, and storytelling. I've never read anything quite like it. It's a riveting procedural tale, describing how the exhibition and interpretations of a central event in American history were created, written, performed, and presented live, as the event was happening. Arras examines five distinct 41/2 hour-long television programs as they played, simultaneously, over five different networks on the morning and early afternoon of September 11, 2001. Sober media analysis is embedded within an elegantly constructed chronicle that unfolds like a novel."

About the Author

Paul Arras is assistant professor in the Communication and Media Studies Department at SUNY Cortland.