Short media memories of horrible local events...

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.