how is it it's advanced in only a few years. >> when i found out osama bin laden died, i found it out on twitter. >> michael jackson -- >> michael jackson. >> michael jackson -- >> michael jackson has died. >> perhaps there's something slightly heartless about covering this event. people started focusing, pivoted to michael jackson and never even looked back to farrah fawcett. for the most part i don't think the public says to anyone making that call in a control room you got it wrong. >> june 25th, 2009. we saw how fast the news cycle can move. at one moment, we're still talking about this horrible killing captured on tape of a young woman in iran, and then farrah fawcett died. no bigger story at that moment. and then michael jackson dies. there's no bigger story. >> but we have been watching him since he was, what? 10 or 12 years old. >> does it mean we have short attention spans?