I grew up watching the Notre Dame Sunday morning highlight show with my parents, holding my breath for every Tom Gatewood catch, ignoring the fact the Irish were getting beaten when the narrator Lindsey Nelson fast-forwarded with the catch phrase, "on to further action".
Unlike the Monica Lewinsky scandal, news of which The Drudge Report also broke, the Kerry rumor had no accompanying criminal investigation, which could justify coverage by itself, and newsrooms across the country found themselves in a state of paralysis -- caught between ignoring a story millions already knew about or validating a charge without independent confirmation.
The administration has been pushing for more cameras at stoplights for years, and the transportation commissioner, Janette Sadik-Khan, also wants a new batch of "speed" cameras that catch drivers ignoring the city's normal speed limit of 30 miles per hour.
And, as in the European Union, which also claims to manage its resources, there is always political pressure to allow extra catches today, ignoring scientific advice that next year's breeding stock might be jeopardised.
I enjoyed an extra dose of motivation knowing that with every step, I was putting distance between myself and that September day six years ago when a condition I had tried to ignore caught up with me.
However, a post-traumatic stress disorder that I had perhaps ignored caught up with me.
Gray fled from a police officer after making eye contact and when he was caught, officers repeatedly ignored his pleas for medical help while he was handcuffed, shackled and lying face down in the back of a police van, the prosecutor said.
In 1970, Roy Jenkins got caught out when he ignored an adviser's warning that an initially well-received budget could fall victim in the public prints to a rogue set of bad trade figures, and that is exactly what happened.
But some of us individuals (including me) and churches are still playing catch up (or, worse, ignoring it altogether).
