You can speculate and create theories on the matter and bound some probability of them being true, but there is a fundamental property of news. There are lots

You can speculate and create theories on the matter and bound some probability of them being true, but there is a fundamental property of news. There are lots of things we don't remember or care about, but we did before. These events? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009 What happened to the Haiti earthquake news? Haiti still needed help even before the recent Cholera outbreak. The Wikileaks news will die again like it did before. Heck, even Spitzer has a primetime show on CNN after his scandal. Silicon Valley news isn't the only news with a short half-life.