what do you remember from the news when you were younger? Didn't it seem like a more innocent time?
I remember all the Dublin papers and radio stations reporting on the 'removal' of the 7 foot tall cardboard cut out of Batman from the Carlton cinema in O'Connell st. in Dublin which was present to promote the new Batman film of the time...
I remember being in the back of the car, my dad driving and hearing it on either the news or a radio daytime talkshow...Like it was a horrendous crime and it being embarrassing to Ireland as the movie company had loaned it to us and we'd lost it.

anyone got any other good ones?

my earliest memory of the news is coverage on the oklahoma city bombing

(i think i was in 3rd grade)

the collapse of the soviet union

No way. Sorry to bring that up for ye man. I remember that too.

oh, i mean it is what it is...
it was a tragedy but at the time i was a little kid...i didn't really care that much, i just wanted to watch cartoons and they had the news on instead.
i dont really remember hearing about little things on the news though as you described in your original post. perhaps it's because of my young age...who knows

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown's_Chicken_massacre

chicago didn't really have innocent news

oj simpson low speed chase

I also have a pretty clear recollection of Bill Clinton campaigning up to the 1992 election.

It's double, because while we were children, other people were grown ups. When I was a little child in the seventies, it wasn't all that innocent. I knew already that politicians sucked, and there were people getting divorced and other horrible things like that. But we (in the Netherlands) did not have many TV channels yet, so most people heard and saw the same things. That brought some kind of unity that's missing nowadays, in my opinion.
The eighties had some very bad music, Thatcher in the neighbouring country, unemployment, pollution, and the start of the selfish society with yuppies and 'managers'.
The nineties went further with that, making economics rule the world, which is a bad thing in my opinion. The music was much better . People all seemed to have forgotten about WWII so nationalism and other pointless hatred got back. Bigger things ruled the news, like wars.
And now it's the zero's. I don't know yet. It could go all ways, and I hope it'll be good. Like the seventies, with more unity and positive thinking about more than just money. Internet is a good way to bring us all more together.

groetjes,
Mirella

The 1988 presidential election is the first piece of news I can recall. I was 5. Both my parents were desperately pulling for Dukakis, so of course I rooted for George Bush and gloated when he won.

Elvis dying.

I read that in the newspaper. It was on the front page in a bottom corner. I knew a puppy called Elvis so that was the first thing I thought about.

groetjes,
Mirella

I disagree.

Wait, Elvis is dead?

- Iran taking hostages.
- Under constant threat of nuclear holocaust
- Reagan shot
- Lennon killed
- Richard Ramirez (the night stalker) running around So. California raping old ladies in the middle of the night.

Just a few of my childhood news memories.



I hardly believe it myself, Matt.

I remember some dude getting his dick cut off and then thrown out of a window, so no, I don't think it was a more innocent time.

Yeah the early 90s were pretty fucked up. I mean, I didn't know it at the time. I thought little old Bethesda, Maryland was quiet, pristine country. We moved from there when I was 6. A few years ago I found out that about 3 months before we moved, two escaped convicts carjacked a woman about a mile away from where we lived. They threw her kid on the side of the road, carseat and all, but her seatbelt got tangled and she couldn't get out, so--still attached to the car and still alive--they tossed her body outside of the car and then drove off, dragging her behind them until she was decapitated.

This shook me up to learn. I thought the worst thing that ever happened around there was when my neighbor fell out of his second story window.

Hey, I remember that woman. They tell you to remain calm in those sorts of situations, but I guess she really lost her head.

i definitely remember the monica lewinsky stuff
the 96 election i remember a bit since i went to a catholic school on the west side of cincinnati so fairly conservative people(i liked bill clinton in first grade i think).

2000 election, i rooted for bush cause of pro-life.

9-11, obviously, watching that in 6th grade was pretty crazy. i didnt grasp quite what it meant that day, but in the days that followed i definitely started to realize things were going to be different in the future.

then pearl jam and related message boards got me more into politics after riot act came out.

i also remember timothy mcveigh drama/hype/etc, but i dont remember the actual bombings.