How NYT Celebrates Apollo 11 50th Anniversary

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(07-22-2019, 09:24 PM)BmorePat87 Wrote: I have no doubt that the current atmosphere regarding race and gender equality played a role in their belief that the story was relevant and worth telling. 

Maybe that.  Also they tweeted links to at least 30 articles that day.  Two had to do with the Moon landing.  The US interactive story was the only one referred to more than once (three times).  The had article on a wide range of subjects on Saturday.

That someone is set off because there was a second story about the space race on the 50th anniversary of the landing points to people looking to be offended and the randomness we humans have with assigning "important" numbers to things.  If they ran the same article on the 49th or 51st would it have triggered people?  Probably not.