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Many regular "live" shows did not air on 9/11 nor even the following days. Late night talk-show programs such as those hosted by Leno & O'Brian carefully resumed a week later.
Jay Leno reserved the bulk of his remarks for a broadcast a week after the attack on America.
Similarly Conan O'Brian addressed the events
Understanding 9/11A Television News Archive
Explore 3,000 hours of international TV News from 20 channels over 7 days, and select analysis by scholars.
Fighting Ephemerality: Seeing TV News through the Lens of the Archive
Deborah Jaramillo, Boston University
The experience of watching the news on TV as events unfold is often complicated by the space of exhibition -- typically, the domestic space. When hour upon hour of news is catalogued and archived -- placed in a space of focused study -- the news and the experience become altogether different. What was meant to be ephemeral acquires permanence, and what is usually a short-term viewing experience becomes a rigorous, frame-by-frame examination. In this presentation I will discuss how the archive challenges researchers to adopt new ways of seeing and explaining TV news.
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