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Business Wars

Wondery

History, Business, David Brown, Management

4.6 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

It's September 11, 2001 and CNN and Fox News race to keep the nation up to date as the tragedy unfolds. Then, when the nation is plunged into war, the organizations diverge in their coverage. And their rival approaches to the War on Terror will deliver a major upset.

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0:00.0	September 11th, 2001, 2001, Atlanta.
0:05.0	CNN managing editor Kevin McAllister presses two phone receivers to his ears
0:16.0	while checking the incoming footage from Manhattan. It's been 32 minutes since the first
0:20.8	plane hit the World Trade Center and CNN's newsroom is racing to keep
0:24.9	pace as the tragedy unfolds.
0:27.8	McAllister barks into one of his phones at CNN's Bureau Chief in Detroit.
0:31.3	Look, I get it, having no one in Detroit's a Look, I get it.
0:33.0	Having no one in Detroit's a risk I'm willing to take.
0:35.9	You got to get everyone in their cars and headed to New York City right now.
0:40.3	McAllister's focus switches to the monitors in front of him.
0:43.2	One screen shows the latest raw footage from a CNN crew in Manhattan,
0:47.2	images of casualties outside the Twin Towers.
0:50.0	He stands up and yells across the newsroom.
0:52.6	Hey, do not take 28 on the air.
0:56.0	No 28, it's too graphic.
0:58.2	28 not to air.
1:00.4	Got it?
1:01.7	CNN boss Walter Isaacson rushes over.
1:04.0	Isakson took charge two months ago to help fend off Fox News,
1:08.0	which is now just a few thousand viewers behind CNN.
1:12.0	He peers over McAllister's shoulder at the
1:14.4	footage. This is a world's biggest disaster. Let's not be too squeamish.
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