While asked to mention the most remarkable news on the media in the last years, people in my Media History class came up with a lot of tragedies (think tsunami, terror attacks), but it took a loooong time until someone mentioned Princess Diana's death, which just reminded me I'm at least 6 years older than the average. But how can not someone remember, even as a child, that day when it didn't seem to be anything else available on TV? The slow motion images of her face, the coffin in the tearful streets of London, that tear jacker song over and over (yup, I bought the CD), I mean... I was home alone, and my mom asked me to watch our lunch ("turn off everything at 11:30am"), and of course I forgot about it completely, and the chicken and everything else burned. I couldn't leave the little screen, and I cried like a baby watching that show. The power of media. I was what? 13? 14?
Of course no one mentioned Brazil winning the World Cup in 1994. Or Ayrton Senna's tragic death earlier that year. Wait a minute... You've never heard of him? How come? He's the freaking best F1 pilot in the history of F1! Learn it, kids.
Of course no one mentioned Brazil winning the World Cup in 1994. Or Ayrton Senna's tragic death earlier that year. Wait a minute... You've never heard of him? How come? He's the freaking best F1 pilot in the history of F1! Learn it, kids.
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Learn it, indeed!
My parents were in London on the time Princess Diana died and I remember everything they told me about that day. And, of course, I have my own memories of that day. I couldn't believe what was happening.
We are getting older, Romeika! :)
Kamila,indeed :) Though it seems like it was yesterday...
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