On 7/1/07, White Cat wikipedia.kawaii.neko@gmail.com wrote:
The Daily Show is as reliable as fake news gets.
The best I could find is http://www.niagara-news.com/v37issues/v37i12/oped.shtml?newsstories
"When I turn on the Cable News Network (CNN), I hope that I will see something about what happened in Congress that day, but instead, I see over two hours of commercial free coverage of the Anna Nicole drama. The last time they went that long without a commercial break was 9/11. According to CNN, Anna Nicole's death is right up there with the deaths of 3,000 American citizens."
Which would imply that the length without a commercial break was longer for 9/11 coverage. That fits in with my recollection. Of course, it would also imply that the length without commercial break was less for, say, Katrina coverage.
Here's another link:
"September 11, 2001 CBS News coverage of the terrorist attacks on New York, Washington, D.C., and Pennsylvania totals a record 93 hours and 8 minutes. The non-stop, commercial-free coverage begins at 8:55 AM, ET, on Tuesday, September 11, and concludes at 6:00 AM, ET on Saturday, September 15. Dan Rather anchors 53 hours and 35 minutes of that coverage."
93 hours and 8 minutes without a commercial break. I highly doubt any major television stations did that for Anna Nicole Smith. Certainly none of the networks did. I think you got your facts confused.