The sorrow sinking in, television networks subtly downshifted from frenzied coverage of the explosions at the World Trade Center and Pentagon to compelling accounts of the human misery they
brought.
ABC, CBS, NBC and the cable news networks stayed on the story full-time into Thursday, eschewing commercials. Broadcast veterans said they couldn't recall such uninterrupted coverage of a
story since the assassination of President Kennedy in 1963.
- AP