INTERVIEW
The 20 years of the World Trade Center attacks commemorated live from New York. This is the choice made by the 20 hours of TF1, which will be live from the American megalopolis on Saturday evening. The JT will present a special page in the 20h, 20 years after the attacks, with reports produced by the journalists of the channel. But not only. Anne-Claire Coudray, who presents the newspaper, also made the trip to New York. “My objective was obviously to be there so that the message and our reports would have an even greater force,” she explains.
“When you are in a studio in Boulogne-Billancourt, it’s complicated to convey the emotion of a place like the Ground Zero memorial”, continues the journalist at the microphone of Europe 1. “When you are there, full many things pass without needing to spell them out. Viewers will immediately feel the atmosphere. “
September 11, a very current fact
Anne-Claire Coudray will also offer one or two interviews. And the editorial staff wanted to focus their reports on current events: one on veterans and how they experience failure in Afghanistan, the other on September 11 rescuers who are now ill. Because there are now more deaths from the consequences of September 11 than there were that day.
The 20h will also discuss the resilience of Americans. Through architecture in particular and ever higher and more impressive skyscrapers. On the other hand, viewers of TF1 will not see images of September 11, 2001. The idea is not to revive this day.
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“We are a news newspaper. We were not there to make a historical documentary on a fact which, 20 years later, should have belonged to history”, specifies Anne-Claire Coudray. “We realized that September 11 was still a fact of the day: it continues to kill on American soil, with cancers that start 20 years later. September 11 also refers to failure in Afghanistan. This 20th anniversary has never been so relevant. “
Viewers will have, during this special page, access to bonuses: behind the scenes of the shoots in New York, additional information, etc. All accessible by flashing a QR code which will appear on the screen and which will refer to the LCI site.
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