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I think this started before 9/11. OJ's white Bronco was before 9/11.
by TwoBit 10y ago
I think this started before 9/11. OJ's white Bronco was before 9/11.
- sitkack 10y agoIt was the first Gulf War where 24 hr news hype cycle really took off. Wolf Blitzer doing his sports announcer thing over footage of "smart bombs".
- gurneyHaleck 10y agoMy house didn't have cable at that time, and I was not yet in high school. We watched the first gulf war in social studies class, putting it in league with the space shuttle challenger disaster. It was a classroom topic for a few months, and then gone. Next year it was Rodney King and Amy Fisher or something. More irrelevant popcorn.
- gurneyHaleck 10y agoYes, but that was tabloid junk. A seedy hollywood yarn. Not an air disaster that demolished two buildings filled with people. 9/11 had teeth that other stories couldn't come close to. Like JFK, it was on another level, and hard to not watch.