Yes, but I couldn't convince her of that. ;-) It's not that I didn't feel -- it was that it was so remote and no one I knew personally was involved.
It's like the news, where they go on and on about one person's tragedy, or one family, and milk it for all it's worth. It's sad, true, but it's not really news.
The coverage about 9/11 was taken entirely too far, it was like probing the wound, ripping off the scab repeatedly, and all too soon it was forgotten that it was an "international" building, and people from many countries were killed and their families affected. I became angry.
Jon Stewart showed all the coverage of the two Obama girls' first day at school. Nice little girls, doing something most children have done at some point in their lives -- but news? News that required hours and hours of film and commentary? Journalism may have reached its nadir.