[fapjacks]

Ah, I apologize, I didn't keep notes or save links or anything of the sort, and I keep kicking myself for it. I'm usually pretty good about taking notes just out of my regular habit of doing research, but it was so casual, and I didn't think it would end up taking as much of my time as it did. It's a pretty easy formula to replicate, though. I picked current events that I could remember -- intervention in Kosovo, Bill Clinton's sex scandal, Berlin Wall, first election of Putin, Enron scandal, those kinds of things -- and just started looking up stories, and asked my parents and older friends to help me with events I wasn't old enough to remember before the 80s. I made sure to hit a "good" cross-section of the media outlets of the day.

[creaghpatr]

I'd love to see the Bush/Gore 2000 election play out on social media. I was only a kid but the news coverage seemed pretty mild compared to how I imagine it would be if that happened in 2016.

[lifeisstillgood]

Thanks - it seems like a half day project to build a spider for this ... one for the list :-)