The 'good' news from 9/11: an RTNDA panel agrees the enormous tragedy displayed media's best instincts.(Brief Article)

Broadcasting & Cable, April, 2002 by Trigoboff, Dan

Before Sept. 11, WRC-TV Washington Assistant News Director Nannette Onley Wilson recalled, "we were doing stories about the vacuum bra." Since the tragedy, she said at a Monday RTNDA panel, "the news is more serious." The session was part self-congratulatory and part cautionary. Panelists, and the audience generally, lauded TV and radio for its coverage of the World Trade Center and Pentagon catastrophes.

But some also feared that as events fade, electronic media's interest in serious and international news might wane, too. Indeed, with budget cuts, CNN International President Chris Cramer said that on Sept. 11 he wondered if the news media was up to the job of covering the catastrophes. But, it was, he said. The events of September 11--the very...

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