Have you noticed how much bigger NYC news is?

[spinbaby]

If that plane had smacked the Ohio River below Pittsburgh, it wouldn't have gotten this kind of wall-to-wall coverage.

[bigwillq]

1. NYC is the capital of the world!

:) ;)


:bounce:

[ddeclue]

2. Well it helps that all the networks have huge news bureaus or HQ's there. nt

[annabanana]

3. yeah.. Not only do the cameras have less distance to cover,

There's rooftop cameras that they can use without even leaving the office!

[uppityperson]

4. Then they couldn't say "new yorkers are the best!" either.

Since having a plane crash land anywhere else, you know the response wouldn't have been the same.

:sarcasm:

[EconomicLiberal]

5. What do you have against NYC? n/t

[eshfemme]

6. Well it was also a disaster + happy ending story all in one

Which are the two types of stories that news outlets LOVE so of course they'd spend all that time on this story that marries the two.

[WinkyDink]

11. Hence, not a disaster! (I get your point, though.)

[Genevieve]

7. 26,402.9 People per square mile.

http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:dTx2nNRYXPEJ:quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/36/3651000.html+nyc+population&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=5&gl=us

[PBS Poll-435]

8. Airbus Redux

Remember Queens?

[firedupdem]

9. I heard Wolf asking one of the responders if this crash reminded

him of 911. Scary stuff..

[bklyncowgirl]

10. Any time you see a plane flying low over New York where it's not supposed to be you think of 9/11

That's just the way it is.

New Yorkers don't obsess over it but it does lurk in the back of people's minds.

[Muttocracy]

12. I think plane crashes in general get huge amounts of attention

:shrug:

[JVS]

13. Two Romes have fallen. The third, Moscow, stands. There will not be a fourth!

I meant to direct this to reply number 1 which erroneously calls NYC the capital of the world.