Bridge Collapse: Emotional scene…
The New York Daily News’ Richard Huff writes about some of the on air reactions to the tragedy…
The TV coverage has gone from shocking, to heartbreaking, to frightening as the cable news networks all struggled to tell the story, analyze what’s known and talk to survivors.
The coverage also moved from repetitive images culled from the first hours to first-person accounts of what it was like to be there, and what it’s like to search for loved ones.
It’s stories like this where TV, for all its faults, can convey the drama like no other. When you watch a family talk about a missing loved one and see the tears well up, it’s impossible not to get emotionally involved.
“To even hear her cries, her whimpers, I felt relieved she was alive,” Jack Reynolds, whose daughter Olivia was one of those trapped on a school bus, told Fox News’ Bill Hemmer.
