memoriable media experience

There have been many big media events in my life that have effected me, or I can remember, but the most memorable media experience in my life is 9/11.
I can remember exactly where I was the second the news hit the television. I had stayed home from school sick that day, and about 10 minutes before the news broke on TV, a phone call came from my cousin who at the time worked in the World Trade Center building. All he said was “ tell everyone I’m okay” and hung up the phone. Me and my mother were not sure what he meant by that, but soon enough the television programs were being interrupted with news. I assumed it was some stupid presidential speech or something boring, so I flip the stations trying to find something other then the news. Within seconds I jumped and screamed to my mother to inform her of what’s going on, with the image of one of the towers up in smoke. Seeing it live, and seeing the news anchors completely distraught, and all of the chaos going on I was sure it was the end of the world. The media defiantly shaped the experience, because at that time there were no answers . Once the second building got attacked, I thought this was a joke. No one on TV had any explanation for anything. Was it an accident? Was it an attack? Is my cousin alright? All that was on the TV was a still shot of the twin towers slowly disintegrating and peoples lives being over one at a time. When I saw a news anchor man crying on live TV, who’s job is to tell the country the worst and the best going on, that’s when it hit me. From then on, this constant fear or question is in the back of everyone’s mind. Finding out my cousin was alive and safe was a huge relief to my family. Through out the years, the tension of fear has lowered but the wonder if a terrorist attack with happen again, is still in the back of peoples mind. Living through the tragedy of 9/11 and seeing the wreckage of that day, is a day I will never forget.