Ted Walter and I wanted to know what percentage of TV reporters in the US who were present at the scene of the Twin Tower’s destruction spoke of explosions at the time of collapse. After much toil we concluded that the great majority of reporters on the scene who have left us sufficient information on which to base a judgment spoke of explosions.

In short, on US television on the morning of 9/11, the hypothesis that explosions accompanied the Twin Towers’ destruction was not merely in play but dominant.