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Originally Posted by Stimpy
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One thing that has always struck me as strange is how quickly information was made available to the press. This was arguably the greatest crime ever to have taken place, simply because it happened on live television, and a complete dossier of information on the responsible parties was being broadcast within an hour of the last plane going down. This included names of people on the planes, security footage of hi-jackers going through security and voice messages from heroic passengers fighting their attackers off. All of this available without processing by law enforcement agencies. None of it made sense and only provided for developing more the great narratives and further mythologies for people to embrace.
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To me this is the most important cultural shift made apparent by 9/11. I don't think it was strange how quickly the press reported information. At the time however, this kind of instant reporting was almost unprecedented and people weren't expecting it. Around 9/11 was also when people really embraced fast internet connections, video phones and electronic transferring of data among other common place technologies now. The reports were awash with information from so many new sources.
Before 9/11 information was processed and transmitted much slower but technology made it so we could get anything almost instantly. Ten years later and we see every major news story broadcast in real time and are now used to it.