Everyone said it was like a movie. That was one of my first thoughts, too. But it wasn't. A movie would have wrapped up against a goosebump-hoisting soundtrack after a couple hours, a steroid-powered hero having tidily dispensed of the evil ones and, the lights highlighting his sweat-glazed brow, uttered a clever quip to a packaged blond and send all us popcorn-chompers on our way. But this wasn't surreal. It was real. The agony stayed; so did the disbelief. 

As a student of media, I've been watching how media is a part of how we come to grips with September 11. I've sorted out some of my own thoughts and clipped other items below:

From this site: 
• Being in Chicago after the attacks
• Det. Free Press op-ed:War looms an uncertain task
• Chimes op-ed: Dual identies, different destinies: being American and Christian at at time like this
• September 11, 2001

Web clippings:
• NYTimes: Plane crashes collapse World Trade Center Towers
• Nationwide front pages
• Bush speech transcript
• Chicago shuts down in wake of attacks
• NYTimes: Fighting for life 50 floors up
• National Review: It Happened Here
• Atlantic Monthly: Ground zero the day after
• John McCain eulogy at Mark Bingham's funeral
• Barnhardt Television diary
• James Lileks: Where were you when you heard
• Michael Wolff: Ambiguous New War
• AP: Satan in the smoke?
• Bush's Faustian deal with the Taliban (May '01)
• London Guardian: They don't see why they are hated
• London Guardian: Future of skyscrapers
• Salon: Preparing for the Worst
• Salon: Religion's place
• SAJA Sept. 11
 

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