Home > Slogans and terms derived from the September 11, 2001 attack
1 Various terms and catchphrases
- Nine-eleven (or 9/11 in the US date notation for September 11th)
from the recovery workers:
- Ground Zero葉he area of the disaster recovery effort, covering Lower Manhattan around the site of the World Trade Center complex
- the pile葉he million-ton pile of rubble of the collapsed World Trade Center towers
- the pit葉he excavated foundations of the World Trade Center
9/11 Dictionary
2 Media slogans
Various slogans and captions appeared on various media to brand coverage of the terrorist attack, its after-effects, and the response. The slogans for United States media appeared on the bottom of the television screen, in a patriotic red, white, and blue motif, sometimes with an explicit graphic of the American flag.
Examples:
- "America Attacked", "A Nation United" ( ABC)
- "Attack on America", "A Nation Challenged", "Day of Terror", "Portraits of Grief" ( The New York Times)
- "America's New War", "War Against Terror" ( CNN)
- "War on Terror" ( FOX News)
- "America on Alert" ( MSNBC)
The Onion parodied this phenomenon with their own slogan, "Holy Fucking Shit: Attack On America" and a fake TV schedule parodying the coverage.