(also spotted on this dive through the mid-1980s: the stereotypical NYT comma headline, long before I thought it first emerged to our collective modern ridicule)pic.twitter.com/lGP1l98fjk
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'On July 27, the French brought up dinner plates and wine bottles from the wreck. The next week, the United States Senate voted to ban the sale for profit of anything from the Titanic.' That is some quick work for the Senate.https://www.nytimes.com/1987/08/14/us/french-will-raise-titanic-strongbox.html …
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VERY LITTLE to do with the Titanic but wow this story about SeaQuest DSV as NBC's silver bullet to take on Murder, She Wrote's monster ratings. https://www.nytimes.com/1993/10/09/arts/review-television-nbc-and-abc-take-on-cbs-and-lansbury.html …pic.twitter.com/hv0HDTYnWR
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(actually a little something to do with the Titanic because 12-year-old me came to know and obsess over Bob Ballard because of the SeaQuest end credits. "Hi, I'm Bob Ballard of the Woods-Hole Oceanographic Institute.")
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back to Titanic, here's Ballard being called in to go all Snopes on a crappy TV documentary in 1987 https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1987/11/01/575687.html?pageNumber=33 …pic.twitter.com/p9FhKXP4TT
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i'm meandering off this rabbit hole now, but i'll just close by saying some of the most fun you can have on the internet is going to the https://timesmachine.nytimes.com and typing random key words and seeing where it takes you.
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