For today being Sept. 11 anniversary...not much media coverage....as previous years.
9/11 anniversary forgotten on the front page of today’s New York Times
by Andrew Beaujon and Julie Moos Published Sep. 11, 2012 7:47 am Updated Sep. 11, 2012 8:39 am
How do you mark the 11th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks? For some papers in the cities where the attacks took place, the answer is subtle: It’s time to move on. At The New York Times and the New York Post, Sept. 11, 2012 is just another day. Both papers ignored the anniversary entirely on their front pages. New York Times Public Editor Margaret Sullivan wrote in a blog post Tuesday, “The pain, the outrage, the loss – these never fade. The amount of journalism, however, must.” Sullivan spoke with two Times editors who note the difficulty of “anniversary journalism.”
“You look for an angle that has news value,” Deputy Metropolitan Editor Wendell Jamieson told her, “and you ask can we mark this day in a creative, exciting and journalistically meaningful way.”
At other New York papers, Citi provides The Wall Street Journal’s front-page coverage, with an ad. And the Daily News blows out its front with a rendering of One World Trade Center, still under construction.
Long Island’s Newsday and the Newark, N.J., Star-Ledger also serve readerships that were heavily affected by the attacks; both turn their fronts over to 9/11 coverage. The Washington Post runs only a small photo of a smoking World Trade Center, and nothing from the nearby Pentagon, on the bottom left of its front page. And the Somerset, Pa., Daily American, which serves the area where Flight 93 went down, fronts two photos of remembrances at the memorial in Shanksville, Pa.
9/11 anniversary forgotten on the front page of today’s New York Times
How do you mark the 11th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks? For some papers in the cities where the attacks took place, the answer is subtle: It’s time to move on. At The New York Times and the New York Post, Sept. 11, 2012 is just another day. Both papers ignored the anniversary entirely on their front pages. New York Times Public Editor Margaret Sullivan wrote in a blog post Tuesday, “The pain, the outrage, the loss – these never fade. The amount of journalism, however, must.” Sullivan spoke with two Times editors who note the difficulty of “anniversary journalism.”
“You look for an angle that has news value,” Deputy Metropolitan Editor Wendell Jamieson told her, “and you ask can we mark this day in a creative, exciting and journalistically meaningful way.”
At other New York papers, Citi provides The Wall Street Journal’s front-page coverage, with an ad. And the Daily News blows out its front with a rendering of One World Trade Center, still under construction.
Long Island’s Newsday and the Newark, N.J., Star-Ledger also serve readerships that were heavily affected by the attacks; both turn their fronts over to 9/11 coverage. The Washington Post runs only a small photo of a smoking World Trade Center, and nothing from the nearby Pentagon, on the bottom left of its front page. And the Somerset, Pa., Daily American, which serves the area where Flight 93 went down, fronts two photos of remembrances at the memorial in Shanksville, Pa.
