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Pastimes : John F. Kennedy, Jr. -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Vendit™ who wrote (76)	7/23/1999 7:51:00 PM
From: Bill	Respond to of 440

All of that could be true. But don't forget that Kennedy tragedies sell newspapers and ad time. The entire media knows this and exploits it at every opportunity.

To: Vendit™ who wrote (76)	7/29/1999 6:13:00 PM
From: Akula	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 440

Vendit, I am, as unlikely as that sounds, a teenager who happens to be interested in current events. I feel that I am obligated to provide a rebuttal to the letter which you so graciously wrote. First, I don't see why the news media needs to over expose any event in order to gain fame. They are already famous. And in any case, this argument does not explain why the public is so interested in the coverage. Your last two points are so related that I will respond to them together. At the moment our country seems, to me, to be doing as well as or better than it has ever done before. We are at peace with the world at large. The Cold War is over and few people fear nuclear annihalation. Our economy is doing remarkably well. I cannot find the woes of President Clinton of which you speak. The public has already blamed the entire impeachment fiasco (perhaps rightly) on a group of (certainly) hypocritical Republicans. Furthermore, no one really expects Gore to win anyway. The 2000 election is basically a battle of two indistinguishable philosophies. Why should anyone care? My personal feeling is that nostalgia is fueling the entire Kennedy issue. However, as I am in fact 15 (not 50, I assure you) you would probably know more about that than I do. Kennedy's assasination is to me a historical fact like the American Revolution and the seige of Stalingrad (and the Soviet Union itself for that matter). To the baby boomer generation it is a real event. Perhaps my generation will also confuse the next with inexplicable bouts of nostalgia.