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New York radio isn't really the place to find out the answer to that, other than maybe WNYC, and I haven't listened much in the last several days to know whether they've reported on or talked about it. My guess is you'd find a moderate degree of interest among people who feel that it's relevant to them to the extent that there are similar issues with the NYPD that gave rise to his grievances (which you might hear something about on a WBAI). And then a handful of people interested simply on the level of a cops-and-robbers spectacle.
Beyond that, my guess would be that New Yorkers didn't care about Jon Benet Ramsey like Denver residents did; they're not likely to pay a huge amount of attention to this story, either.
Beyond that, my guess would be that New Yorkers didn't care about Jon Benet Ramsey like Denver residents did; they're not likely to pay a huge amount of attention to this story, either.
The LA cop story is another violent US news story that went absolutely global.
Right after the president's State of the Union Speech, the shootout and fire at Big Bear was a second or third story, behind the president and the pope, on international TV newscasts, including the BBC, NHK from Tokyo, Al Jazeera English, and PressTV from Iran. And earlier in the day there was coverage on those global outlets and several others.
So, the fact that it was a big national story or also talked about on NYC radio is no surprise.
An old definition of news is: Dog bites man, that's NOT news, but man bites dog IS NEWS. This story was, thankfully, unusual.
This was a vengeful former cop turned terrorist, murdering the families of other former cops for revenge, threatening other cops and their families, and with the kind of weapons and police and military training that made the threats credible. And there were some members of the public supporting him as a man cheated by the system. It was a story made for Hollywood. That all made it big news in LA, in the US and around the world.
Right after the president's State of the Union Speech, the shootout and fire at Big Bear was a second or third story, behind the president and the pope, on international TV newscasts, including the BBC, NHK from Tokyo, Al Jazeera English, and PressTV from Iran. And earlier in the day there was coverage on those global outlets and several others.
So, the fact that it was a big national story or also talked about on NYC radio is no surprise.
An old definition of news is: Dog bites man, that's NOT news, but man bites dog IS NEWS. This story was, thankfully, unusual.
This was a vengeful former cop turned terrorist, murdering the families of other former cops for revenge, threatening other cops and their families, and with the kind of weapons and police and military training that made the threats credible. And there were some members of the public supporting him as a man cheated by the system. It was a story made for Hollywood. That all made it big news in LA, in the US and around the world.
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