How about this one?
Now, instead of steely determination, the television screens will be filled with funerals, elegies, interviews with neighbours, mounds of flowers and teddy bears: it enables the networks to slip in to their preferred mode, of America as victim, weak and vulnerable, which is why ABC, CBS, NBC and CNN were so good on September 11 and, for the most part, so bad in the months since.
The networks had better not stay in that mode very long, because "steely determination" will return quickly.