# So, what were my fellow Dopers doing when they heard The News (regarding FBI Search of Mar-A-Lago)?

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> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#):
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> At this point, someone has to say it. CNN didn’t exist in 1974. This thread is about something that happened today, [August 8, 2022](https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/08/08/us/trump-fbi-raid).

Sorry, but lots of us don’t consider this (the FBI looking for classified documents at Trump’s place) as a big news story. Even you: if someone asks you at the end of this year what were the big news stories of the year I doubt if you will mention it.

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