 " Today , of course , there is exponentially more news coverage than there was in 1964 — not to mention exponentially more attempts to slot attention @-@ getting events into simple , truthy stories about human nature . The gap between the famous version of the Genovese story and the true one , then , is worth remembering , if only as a check on our natural tendency to hear a story and then nod along and say , ' Of course that ’ s what happened ! ' ” 
