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Ford Prefect <remailer@bi-node.zerberus.de> writes: 

> fred_s@anthrax.cisco.com:
> fs> I'm
> fs> not saying I don't go a day or two now and then and miss it due to
> fs> vacations and so forth but if it were as impressively well-publicized
> fs> as some here make it sound, there's no way I could be unfamiliar with
> fs> it.
>
>"He's not famous; _I've_ never heard of him!"

That's an easy retort.  When multiple people are saying it, it's kind of a
silly one, though.

>In San Francisco it was primarily a broadcast media story that peaked in '93.
>The SF area TV stations covered it heavily in the days preceeding the
>Superbowl, but otherwise it was rarely mentioned in the off-season except in
>dubious media "public affairs" dronings about spousal abuse or sports
>violence.  Prior to Superbowl Sunday, however, I saw it referred to on each
>Saturday evening local news broadcast I saw, and sometimes in considerable
>depth - including interviews with abuse hotline personnel, etc.  As I said,
>in '92 - '93 period, I am positive that I heard at least two-dozen
>references to it on TV and radio, including NPR.
>
>I don't remember seeing anything about it in The Comical, but I rarely
>read it.  The Comical and The Murky News are scarcely exemplars of
>scholarly journalism, but I still expect a slightly higher level of
>research from newspapers.  TV, on the other hand, will spout virtually
>any sensationalist, boohhoo nonsense that sounds juicy, so it's natural
>that they made a bigger story of this UL.

Don't you think it's a bit hard to believe that a news item would make TV news
constantly yet not really make a splash at all in the papers?  That's one of
the reasons I tend to avoid TV news - the total lack of depth and an adherence
to fluff reporting.  But anything covered _that_ widely on TV is going to make
it either on the front page of a newspaper (if general news) or on the front
page of a sports section (if sports news).  If it's an individual station's (or
network's) feature report, it might actually get a lot of time without really
being covered in the papers but only on the one station (or network) - for the
same reasons it didn't make the papers.

Fred