Remembering 9/11: Newbie In A Newsroom
Looking back to when it all started as a working journalist
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The phone rang on the kitchen wall.
I looked at the LED display. The caller ID on my Uniden handset read Tue. Sept. 11, 2001. The call was from my college adviser. I pressed the speaker button.
"Are you watching the TV right now?" he asked without even saying hello.
"No," I said.
"Well, you should probably turn it on," he replied.