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Tuesday, September 11, 2001

He is trying to interview every passerby all at once

"We are looking at a giant factory of death. Smoke billows from from two glassy chimneysÑthen the chimneys tremble and sink from view. On the ground level, it is as though a volcano erupted. Watching Fox, I see zombies pass by. MSNBC's, CBS's and ABC's Internet servers are overloaded. Twelve blocks north, an NBC News reporter (Jim Donahue?) did a standup while hundreds of firefighters, clad in black, walked past him to the scene of suffering. Around the reporter the sky was clear. One mile from the factory of death it was a beautiful late summer day."

TV Barn. Aaron Barnhart reports on television coverage of the disaster.

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