Scripting News: Friday, September 11, 2026
Friday, September 11, 2026 Remembering 9/11/2001 # Scripting News on 9/11/2001. # All of us who lived through 9/11 are re-experiencing it right now. The local fire department just ran its alarm, everyone in this small mountain hamlet heard it and it took a moment to realize this was the exact time the first plane hit the tower. I was at my computer in Woodside, California -- hearing about it from friends in Manhattan, and blogging about it as it happened. I didn't have a TV, I had turned my cable subscription off after I became so obsessed with coverage of the 2000 election. So what I reported came exclusively through the web. # New York-based journalists were off the air, they had the same tools as we did, but their lives were upturned by the events. Everything was outwardly calm at my workstation in Calif.But there were people in NYC with digital cameras, and first-hand stories of survival. My own father was caught up in the catastr...