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The First Images Of 9/11: Carol Lin Talks About Anchoring For CNN When News Broke – And How It Changed Journalism And Her Life And Career

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Editor’s note: One in a series of remembrances on the 20 years since 9/11.It was 8:49 a.m. ET, and CNN cut away from a commercial break.

Viewers didn’t see a return to the studio, but what anchor Carol Lin described as a “very disturbing live shot”: “That is the World Trade Center, and we have unconfirmed reports this morning that a plane has crashed into one of the towers,” she said on air, in a moment that has, in the years since, been replayed in retrospectives, documentaries and movies.As it happened, Lin, in Atlanta, was the first national anchor to report on what, by the next hour, became apparent when a second plane struck the South Tower: The U.S.

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