When was the 911 attack referred to as Ground Zero?

Question

The TwinTowers were attacked on Sep. 11, 2001. During the recovery process, the area was referred to as Ground Zero. What is the actual date this term was used on the 911 attack?

Answer 1

Within days of the September attacks, the topos “ground zero” was being used in every kind of discourse, popular and official, to refer to the site of the destroyed World Trade Center complex in Manhattan. Whoever first used the term in this new context, its appropriation and dissemination by mainstream corporate media was astonishingly rapid. By September 16, even the purportedly circumspect New York Times had adopted it.1 Alternative media sources were not noticeably more reflective in their use of the term. After 9/11, Amy Goodman, the courageous producer of the leftist national radio program Democracy Now, began her daily Manhattan-based news shows with the pronouncement: “From ground zero radio, this is Democracy Now.” After the bombing of Afghanistan began in October, she included in every broadcast the statement: “New York was the first ground zero, Afghanistan is the second.”

Answer 2

Ground Zero refers to the location of the event -- not the event itself. Specifically, the Twin Towers are referred to as Ground Zero because that is where the initial attack took place. The term "911" or "Nine, One, One" refers to the terrorist attack that became known publicly when two hi-jacked airplanes crashed into New York's Twin Towers (Ground Zero) on Sept. 11, 2001. I believe that the term began being used on 09/11/01 during news media accounts of the attacks.
If I correctly recall my high school history lessons, the term "Ground Zero" was originally used when referring to the initial points of impact of America's first atom bombs. I welcome feedback from other Yahoo Answers participants to confirm or refute my recollection of the introduction of the term "Ground Zero".

Answer 3

Ground Zero is a termed used for places in an area generally the size of or an actual city to describe a point of importance. I mean, if you remember the news from that day you'll remember there was NOTHING on besides that. Therefore it was the "Ground Zero" of the world for the days that followed. There was news of survivors, stories of them and all sorts of coverage. Plus media attention of it has continued to this day, ex. the Flight 93 Movie, the memorial concerts, the special on the Discovery Channel with the family members of those lost and a lot more.

Answer 4

It was referred to Ground Zero on the actual date of the attack. The term Ground Zero is not unique to the WTC. It's used in reference to the specific site of any event.

Answer 5

Ground Zero, I believe, is referring to the bottom of the Towers.
The old saying "Back to Square 1" or Back to ground zero. It is the starting point of the erection of the towers. By the end of the day, the towers were no longer standing tall....they crumbled to the ground.....100 some odd floors, right down to nothing at all...zero.

Answer 6

The term was used by the rescue workers on the day of the attack. It really is a misnomer for the site of the World Trade Center, because "Ground Zero" usually means the site of the explosion of a bomb. There was no bomb on that day.

Answer 7

I thin it was called Ground Zero...on that day...It's a term the news sources put to it and it stuck...well, that is what I think anyhow...but not 100% sure.

Answer 8

First used at 11:55 on the day by Mark Walsh a witness interviewed by Fox News.He also was the first to suggest collapse was due structural failure because fires were too intense, see
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z45hI6YuC-I

Answer 9

That is a very good question that just goes to show you how fast people can commercialize things making a mockery of a truly great american tragedy. but i accually don't know how that came to be sorry.

Answer 10

the day after