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Yesterday we got to watch in "real time" the landing of Apollo 11 on the moon, down to the second it was aired when covered by Walter Cronkite. Today the NY Times has included a four page insert in the paper, featuring the big headline of July 21st, 1969, just as it was printed 40 years ago. Wanna save some trees? Read the original story here; it's still probably one of the most exciting ledes of all time: "Men have landed and walked on the moon."
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Hooray.
Another anniversary of another historical event to be noted by today's press.
The next time someone knocks kids for not reading newspapers, remind them how the media gushes about events that took place a generation, or more, before they were born.
Just tell 'em that back in the day, if you "collected some rocks and planted a flag", you got on the front page of the NYT.
Everyone knows the moon landing was a fake.
I'm still a big fan of The Onion's retro headline (NSFW):
http://www.members.shaw.ca/rlongpre01/moon.html