An interesting point.

[Ysobelle at aol_com]

I think some of us have been wondering about this.




From 
http://my.aol.com/news/news_story.psp?type=4&cat=0809&id=030203201807108114




As has become customary for such events, images of the disaster -- in 
this case a distant white streak hurtling across a blue sky before 
breaking into several streaks -- were played over and over again as 
networks preempted their usual lineup of Saturday morning cartoons.

"These images become part of our national history, part of out national 
memory," said (Dan) Rather, who joined "Saturday Early Show" host Russ 
Mitchell by 10:30 a.m. to become the first of the Big Three anchors on 
the air.

Other observers said the mammoth horror of the suicide hijacking attacks 
on the World Trade Center and Pentagon nearly 18 months ago may have 
diminished the visual impact of the Columbia disaster.

"Everybody has already got their defining generational media moment 
burned into their head, and that was the four or five days of and 
following Sept. 11 of 2001," (Robert) Thompson  (director of Syracuse 
University's Center for the Study of Popular Television) said. Thompson 
said the 1986 loss of the space shuttle Challenger was, perhaps, more 
horrifying to the public than the Columbia disaster because it was 
completely unprecedented and the tragic launch was broadcast live on 
television before millions of viewers. 










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