And on Sunday, the 12th anniversary of the tragic crash of ValuJet Flight 592, west of Miami in The Everglades, with 110 victims, many from South Florida and The Bahamas, I didn't hear it
mentioned even once in local South Florida media, TV or print.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ValuJet_Flight_592 and http://www.cnn.com/US/valujet.592/
Just in case you hadn't gotten the earlier memo, this is the kind of media market this is. But if you want photos of Jen and John... well, that's a different story.
See also:
Wall Street Journal
Airlines Are Safer Than Ever
By CLIFFORD WINSTON and ROBERT W. CRANDALL
April 19, 2008
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120856322751028003.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
Some day in the not-too-distant future, I'll post some thoughts of mine over at my South Beach Hoosier blog on an interesting afternoon I once spent with former American Airlines CEO and President Robert Crandall in the mid-1980's, after literally (and fortuitously) running into him on a sidewalk in the verdant southern part of campus at Northwestern, a few hours before
he was to speak to a class at Kellogg. (KGSM) http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/
Though I don't agree with him on everything, of course, Crandall's a tremendously impressive guy. Especially in person!
As I close here, the thought occurs to me that the local media apathy towards a tragic date is reminiscent of all the times I ever woke up in Arlington on December 8th or 9th, walked out to the sidewalk, picked up the WaPo, and shortly thereafter, read a nasty Letter to the Editor of the Washington Post -for once again completely ignoring the significance of December 7th.
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