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Old 03-16-2023, 11:11 AM   #1260
timun
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Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger View Post
Watching a high speed car chase on KTLA with over the top hysteria commentary from the news anchors is just peak American media. You could really sense their desire to see something shocking happen (crash, hit a pedestrian, shootout etc) and their palpable disappointment when the pursuit ended with the driver pulling into a parkade.
Yep, very distinct the way it gets turned into a spectacle. I tuned into KTLA to watch cartoons on the afternoon of April 30, 1998, and ended up watching Daniel V. Jones kill himself.
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