Still, given the amount of threads dedicated to TSA and Wikileaks on HN, I thought it'd be amusing to point out this little graph on Google Trends.
It fits extremely well with what we can observe on HN: hardly anyone is discussing the TSA issues anymore. Which begs the question: how aggravated are we with the TSA, really, if the scandal-du-jour can so easily makes us forget what we were passionately discussing just weeks ago?
Thanks for posting this. It demonstrates nicely what is a common phenomenon. I'm also sure it's frequently used in politics and elsewhere to to hide a scandal behind a seemingly more important but in fact less important (or untrue) event.
Nevertheless, in this particular case I think WikiLeaks indeed is the bigger story.
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It fits extremely well with what we can observe on HN: hardly anyone is discussing the TSA issues anymore. Which begs the question: how aggravated are we with the TSA, really, if the scandal-du-jour can so easily makes us forget what we were passionately discussing just weeks ago?
Nevertheless, in this particular case I think WikiLeaks indeed is the bigger story.