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Originally Posted by Rusty Heap

I'm surprised about the press coverage of this.........all over the place as a headline.......what are they distracting us from? "nothing to see here, OH LOOK a squirrel. "

Nah, the media doesn't want to distract us. That stopped happening when the govt stopped using them for that purpose in the 40s or maybe 50s.

These days, the media will seize whatever they can sensationalize to create hysteria. My guess is that it was a slow week, so they all latched on to this as the most exciting thing around.