Bizarre news experience

[steuard]

We have a moment of calm right now (but not long enough for a nap), so I wanted to record a rather remarkable news experience that I had Tuesday night and Wednesday morning before other events completely drive it from my mind

Comments

[donaithnen]

If this is the one i'm thinking of i've been seeing it for weeks under the "U.S." tab of the news app for my phone, but haven't actually read any of the articles and haven't seen anything about it anywhere else. That may be because my only other regular sources for "normal" news are the sidebar on wikipedia and the Daily Show and Colbert Show, and i'm way behind on that.

Having not read anything about it i can't say why it's gotten so much coverage.

[pmb]

I missed it too.

[nasu_dengaku]

Missed it too.

[ukelele]

I was peripherally aware, but it didn't sound like learning more would improve my life, so I didn't.

[kirinn]

Heard of it only after the verdict, then looked it up briefly and started ignoring it again. Looks like the sort of thing that occasionally catches fire due to a sensationalist hook and random chance of the "news" cycle.

Of course, I get most of my news from social networking and two-week-old Economists, so.