Lol it's hard to convey just how bad TV was after 9/11 for quite awhile. Everything was over the top sad. Also while on the topic I'm pretty sure if I recall correctly for the entire day of 9/11 every single network besides kids shows and maybe a few others like weather all were showing 9/11 coverage. You literally couldn't find a channel not rebroadcasting the news coverage besides those, it was wild.
The mood wasn't about mourning the loss of 3000 human beings, it was mourning the fall of American hegemony. That's the line I kept hearing ad nausea in the media. "We were attacked on our own soil." It didn't matter what the impact was, the fact that it happened was an offense to American ego itself. How dare people attack America, don't you know we're the ones who do the invading. We will show you what you signed up for. As if this wasn't a decades of imperalism coming home to roost.
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