John Lennon, 23 years ago today

People are fickle about what's kept alive, versus what's forgotten, or at least, fades from page 1. What's that boundary, and does it matter?

Pearl Harbor shouldn't be forgotten, of course, but it was 62 years ago. There was quite a bit of coverage on it yesterday, as I recall, for example, something about divers on the USS Arizona.

When should it stop hitting page 1? After 75 years? 100 years? I dunno. What does that really matter?

Let's not forget who the media are, and let's not be scared of them. After all, the most popular newspapers are the Wall Street Journal and USA Today. One's conservative and one's utterly bland.

To compare Pearl Harbor coverage, which there actually was some of, with Lennon's assassination coverage, which there was none (haven't seen any), is fatuous. And to compare the importance of the events, is just stupid.

Ok, so you hate the Beatles, that's fine. You have no taste, but that's fine. How that turns into liberal media suppression of remembering PH (which didn't happen), is a mental linkage that defies logic.

I myself have lived in your beloved country for almost two years. I find American people both warm and friendly and I hold them in the utmost esteem. Almost everyone I have met has done everything in their powers to make me feel welcome. Thank-you.

However, your comments seem indicative of the population in general. Specifically, you are driven by blind patriotism and in doing ignore the global picture. Such a culture, I believe, Is fostered by an impartial media.

I am certainly not jealous of not being American nor proud of being British.

plato wrote:

Such a culture, I believe, Is fostered by an impartial media.

I am certainly not jealous of not being American nor proud of being British.

Don't you mean fostered by a "partial media"? Because America's media, news wise, is out of control. Most Americans are very ignorant when it comes to seeing the big picture, how the country works, how the world works, who is really in charge, etc. Hopefully, the internet is slowly changing that.

Hey Plato, there aint no place called Pearl Harbour.

We don't use your French spellings or your French metric system.

"phony beatle-mania has bitten the dust"

Plato,

I extend the olive branch. I let my dislike for Lennon become a jingoistic rant and that wasn't my intent. I feel I have some perspective becasue I did make an effort to not be a blind patriot. We live in a country that can provide most everything its citizens need internally. That carries over into media as well, where most Americans have zero to little exposure to other countries. You have no choice but to be exposed(to other cultures) when you live in Europe in close proximity to 20 other countries. When I was in England, I was inundated daily with info on the US through TV, newspaper, etc. Here, I have to scour the internet to find out that the English won the Rugby World Cup. Congrats on beating the Aussies.

I totaly agree with you!

Jeezus guys lighten up on John Lennon a little will ya...after all, this is not Alan Webb we're talking about here...must be a slow news week

I am/was indeed a Lennon fan both with and without the Beatles (could certainly have done withOUT Yoko)...one of my many memorable runs was in Havana where Castro had recently commissioned a public statue of Lennon (he felt that they were simpatico)...after inquiring of a dozen or so locals using my limited Spanish and their limited English, it was determined that it was located in a relatively obscure neighborhood park...definitely off the beaten track...after running the side streets of Havana for a half hour or so we stumbled upon it...its an oversized metal sculpture of Lennon sitting on a park bench, legs crossed and left arm extended across the top of the bench...set up for one to take a seat along side him...was really pretty cool...lots of flowers from fans left at his feet...later I found out that we had just missed a big time Havana scandal...someone had stolen Lennon's glasses...in a "state of emergency" Castro commissioned the artist to make a new set of glasses ...and this time, to permanently weld them on to Lennon's face...all in all, a memorable run.

Six bullets and not one of them hits Yoko.....where's the f***ing justice!