<p>FILE - In this Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001 file picture, travellers at Singapore's Changi International Airport stop to watch live pictures of smoke billowing over lower Manhattan after a terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York. From all parts of the world, even in New York itself, most people experienced the events of Sept. 11, 2001 on television. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)</p>
August 12, 2011
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Terrorist attacks: A universal television event
TV was central gathering place for people to experience 9/11
NEW YORK - The first indication of the horrors to come was a single camera shot that suddenly appeared on television sets throughout the world: a skyscraper bathed in the morning sun, smoke pouring from a ragged hole in its side. The images grew even worse, as the entire world witnessed the death and destruction of Sept. 11, 2001.