9/11 Discussion

The section of news that I read was a Daily Press Briefing with Philip T. Reeker, who is a Deputy Spokesman. This transcript is from 7:40 PM on Septemeber 11, 2001 in Washington, DC. This man basically acknowledging the terrible event that has happened and updates on when Secretary of State, Colin Powell, is arriving in Washington. He is also describing what The State Department has been doing for precautions and that they have been running farily smoothly.

I picked this article/transcript because I thought it was interesting to see how people in charge of order in our country dealt with the tragedy. Also, I thought it was interesting to see how the country's authority figures addressed the public immediately (at least, the same day) following the attacks. Because I was not old enough to even know what was going on, I don't remember any of the public adressings of officials. The public would obviously have been eating up anything that this man said, because immediate coverage of the attacks was very limited at the time.