Hasta La Creative!

A couple weeks ago I wrote about how the media-industrial complex loves nothing so much as an anniversary — especially a grim anniversary. With the arrival today of the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination, there’s plenty of blanket coverage of an event that’s half a century old, and lots of reflection on what the tragedy did to our nation and the world.

But the most compelling coverage you might encounter today comes from Boston.com, a Boston Globe Media Partners website, which is publishing what it’s calling “a historically-accurate live blog featuring a moment-by-moment timeline of that tragic November day in 1963 — as we would have reported it today.” You can view it here. The blog includes photographs and video clips as well as eerily straightforward dispatches, like this one, which kicks off the day at 9:45 a.m.:

It’s raining lightly outside the Hotel Texas in Fort Worth. President Kennedy is greeting the crowd of people that has gathered in the parking lot.

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