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Originally Posted by L-Pink
People aren't suddenly going mental. Todays media makes events thousands of miles away seem like it's just down the street. Not to long ago Walter Cronkite for a half hour a night less commercials was national news.
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I think this is true to a large extent. Twenty or thirty years ago this would have been a short blip on the news. Now it's highly sensationalized. I also think a lot of things were brushed under the rug years ago.