I, too, was struck by the dense attitude of the CNN reporters. I kept thinking that it must be orders from on high, do not make any guesses about what you see happening, because they all seem uniformly unwilling or unaware of what was going on. Also, how long it took them to get people in the street. So much of the coverage was just watching burning buildings from a distance. Shepard Smith did make a comment about that (I remember from the day, not the tapes) about the reason for that was the coverage was too upsetting, "not suitable" he called it. And I was mad when he said that, because I felt the news should be shown as it happened, not predigested. I don't want to see guts everywhere, but neither do I want it sanitized to death so no true impact of what happened gets through.