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by TwoBit 3483 days ago
I think this started before 9/11. OJ's white Bronco was before 9/11.
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sitkack 3483 days ago
It 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".
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gurneyHaleck 3483 days ago
My 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.

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gurneyHaleck 3483 days ago
Yes, 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.

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