You beat me to this:
Elvis Aaron Presley died on 16 Aug 1977.
Julius (Groucho) Marx died on 19 Aug 1977.
Not once have I ever heard, “Groucho Lives!”
The expected death of Sammy Davis Jr. was completely overshadowed by the mind boggling death of Jim Henson on the same day. I remember hearing “two celebrity greats died today.” followed by a report on Davis (Well, that was expected) and then Henson :eek:
The 22 February Christchurch Earthquake was still getting big coverage here when, on 13 March, Japan saw their quake and raised them a tsunami, a volcanic eruption and a nuclear disaster. Every Australian journalist must have been on the next flight out of NZ.
Although not entirely eliminated, I think that much of the attention on the unrest in Libya was turned away by the earthquake in Japan.
And both, for a while, by the Royal Wedding (as was the unrest in Syria).
Uh, yes, it did. Air France and British Airways retired them in 2003.
Skald, ya beat me to it!
Robert Mitchum died on July 1st, 1997, followed one day later by a certain Jimmy Stewart.
Ford’s pardon of Nixon buried Evel Kneivel’s jump over the canyon.
Nobody’s mentioned the most recent example: Osama’s death sure pushed William & Kate’s wedding off the front pages.
The death of Mary Jo Kopechne by a drunken U.S. Senator and brother of a former President was buried on the inside pages of newspapers (even in his home state of Massachusetts) due to events that were happening 230,000 miles away.
No, I’d actually like to know, and for more than tabloid interest.
I don’t think the unrest in Syria has ever received significant news coverage in the US. Which is a shame.
We tend to think of them as the same event, but I would say the Twin Towers falling totally overshadowed both the plane hitting the Pentagon and the crash of the 4th plane: I remember distinctly that the paper the next day had the Pentagon story on the second page, and I thought at the time that I could never have imagined “Plane Hits Pentagon” as a second page story.
Well, for weeks and weeks worth of news back ca. 1975, I don’t remember anything that was reported except for the fact that Francisco Franco was still dead.
The Feb. 2003 Space Shuttle Columbia disaster at first took the focus off the impending invasion of Iraq. Soon after, the invasion eclipsed the shuttle.
On January 13, 1982 a Metro train derailed in a tunnel under Washington, D.C. killing 3 people. This would have been major, major news the next day except for the fact that 30 minutes earlier a Boeing Jet, Flight 90, took off from Washington’s National Airport and because of ice on its wings crashed into the 14th Street Bridge killing 78 people on the airplane and on the ground.
I remember a Punch cartoon of the day, shows an angel handing St Peter a package… “It’s Franco’s liver. He’s arriving here in installments.”
In fact, it’s a known political spinmster trick to try to time any really bad news release just in time to be overshadowed by the big news story about to break - i.e. an election, the Olympics, etc. Can’t think of an example off hand. (Except ddn’t someone get quoted saying on 9/11 “now would be a good time to release any bad news?”)
This just in! Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead!
Yes, Jo Moore, an aide to the then UK Secretary of State for Transport, Steven Byers: