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Unfortunate as it may be, Diana's death has become big business. Every TV network has seen around a four-fold increase in Nielsen ratings since Saturday night ? with well over a million turning to CNN alone. Post-crash pictures of the Mercedes, even though no newspaper has yet dared to publish them, are being valued at $1 million. Books are flying off the shelves: most Barnes and Noble stores were sold out of Diana biographies within hours of the accident...
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...Death of Diana: An emotional search for villains seems certain to test the decorum of the French justice system (TIME Daily)... Coverage of the unfolding tragedy is being followed by an extraordinary number of people (TIME Daily) ... From her glorious wedding to the slow disintegration of her marriage, Americans have been fascinated by Diana's every move (People Special...
...President Kennedy's assassination, the moon landing and the night war broke out in the Gulf were so widely and instantly disseminated that nearly all who witnessed them can tell you where they were and what they were doing at the time. Now, it seems the death of Princess Diana has been somberly added to this sublime list of events...
...millions upon millions tuned in and logged on to follow the shocking tragedy as it unfolded. Page views of CNN's web site, for instance, quadrupled on Saturday night, while the network?s cable channel got an unusually high 7.6 rating at the midnight hour ? the moment news of Diana's death began to seep through. To put that in context, events such as the World Trade Center bombing or the Los Angeles quake barely registered a 3 rating. "My sense is it's just about a big a thing as you can get," says TIME National Correspondent Richard Zoglin...