yo i think it'd be interesting to do a study on people's perceptions of when things happen as it relates to news. like asking people when exactly qaddafi was deposed or those terrorists took all those hostages in mumbai or when lehman brothers collapsed or any number of other news stories. i just thought of this because i was just trying to remember when qaddafi was deposed and i really have no idea whether it was in december or maybe late october. which is really an enormous spread. and i think itd go a long way to illuminating a lot of the theorizing about how NON STOP NEWS affects our sense of disaster, of eventfulness, especially if it was contrasted with other kinds of memory (if there is a contrast...) like when this or that marriage, family event etc happened. COOL STUFF