Because we live in a spoon fed, media culture in which things that don't appear on the nightly news, Springer, Oprah or American Idol never really happened. Consequently, these events, which occurred 8/9/07 never really occured until they were shown by the MSM last week. Keep in mind that most of the electorate in this country finds it far easier to engage reality when somebody else presentsit to them, rather than going through all the effort of actually going out and confronting it.