Do you remember what a normal news day was like?

[Sir Mohamed]

Sure. I remember saying to others in 2016: Just imagine the news if Donald Trump is elected prez. It will certainly not happen, but be funny to watch in an alternate universe. Well, there we are.

[emailking]

I was very little but I still remember the summer before 9/11 it was 24/7 coverage of Gary Condit. Very tabloid and Court TV like.

I remember the media making a big deal about the occasional person being bitten by a shark in early September 2001. Of course then 9/11 happened and the media found wars to report on instead of occasional shark attacks.

I can't remember who, I think Letterman maybe, made the remark after 9/11 that if Gary Condit got bitten by a shark no one would care now.

Remember when Elizabeth Smart, and similar cases, were covered by CNN/MSNBC/FOX as breaking-news cases that sucked up all other news, in the 2000's? Or Anna Nicole Smith?

And how Natalee Holloway dominated coverage on all 3 cable news networks in the summer 2005.

[Virginiá]

I guess it's all relative, but a normal news day to me was the pre-2016 years, where endless political scandal and drama didn't dominate every news cycle. Obama was, for the most part, a boring president, and that's a good thing. Trump has turned the presidency into a reality tv show, and it's gotten to the point where drama that would cripple a normal presidency is now just another day and another 10-minute piece on cable news.

As far as the news being even more mundane pre-9/11 or whatever, I wouldn't know.

[Fight for Trump]

I'm quite enjoying the  flinging.

[Sumner 1868]

I remember the media making a big deal about the occasional person being bitten by a shark in early September 2001. Of course then 9/11 happened and the media found wars to report on instead of occasional shark attacks.

One interesting thing that people forget is that just before 9/11, Bush was proposing amnesty for undocumented Mexicans, and a guest-workers program that he negotiated with Vicente Fox. Polling from the time showed it was a deeply unpopular initiative.

https://www.cis.org/sites/cis.org/files/articles/2001/back1201.pdf

https://news.gallup.com/poll/4852/americans-clearly-oppose-amnesty-illegal-mexican-immigrants.aspx

[Progressive Pessimist]

I actually do. I never thought I would miss the days of CNN obsessing over a downed Malaysian airplane.

[Bootes Void]

I know this is necroposting but I think this is now relevant. It has felt that the news has been very chaotic over the last 5 years-6 years( and by that I mean Trump). Now with Trump gone, I think in a few months we'll see what a normal news day is like.

Might be entirely new to some people.

[Ferguson97]

i remember when late comedy wasn't onesided.

The comedians didn’t change, the Republicans just became batsh**t insane.

[Torrain]

I know this is necroposting but I think this is now relevant. It has felt that the news has been very chaotic over the last 5 years-6 years( and by that I mean Trump). Now with Trump gone, I think in a few months we'll see what a normal news day is like.

Might be entirely new to some people.

Even the last few days have felt more normal.

The news has gone from coverage of armed insurrection and potential misuse of the pardon power, to coverage of Biden's watch choice and arcane senate rules.

It feels like 2014/15 all over again.

[Hammy]

I remember, it was 19 years, 4 months, 16 days ago.