I searched several different forums to see if there has been some recent discussion on this topic and couldn't find much. I apologize in advance if I'm beating a dead dog here.
This came to mind because I happened to catch a show on The Learning Channel or The Discovery Channel or something like that this past weekend. Part of it was about the shootout in North Hollywood. As I watched the footage (much of which I hadn't seen before) I started thinking back to when that happened. And I thought to myself how quickly that story seemed to die in the media after it was over. Normally an event of that magnitude would have been dissected over and over again by the network news, the news magazine shows, Geraldo and anyone else in the business for weeks. But, IIRC, it only took a few days for the media to find other things to focus on. In fact, it wasn't until I did an internet search the other day that I even saw the names of the bank robbers.
Am I off my rocker, suffering from agge-induced memory lapses or was there some rhyme or reason to this?
This came to mind because I happened to catch a show on The Learning Channel or The Discovery Channel or something like that this past weekend. Part of it was about the shootout in North Hollywood. As I watched the footage (much of which I hadn't seen before) I started thinking back to when that happened. And I thought to myself how quickly that story seemed to die in the media after it was over. Normally an event of that magnitude would have been dissected over and over again by the network news, the news magazine shows, Geraldo and anyone else in the business for weeks. But, IIRC, it only took a few days for the media to find other things to focus on. In fact, it wasn't until I did an internet search the other day that I even saw the names of the bank robbers.
Am I off my rocker, suffering from agge-induced memory lapses or was there some rhyme or reason to this?
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