When newsreels in the cinema gradually made place for television news broadcasting , it became a habit for mass audiences to watch the daily news on television . Worldwide this led to a new kind of collective memory where various news events could be shown much quicker than with the cinema newsreels . Therefore , certain filmed news stories could be shown on the same day they happened and even live during the broadcast itself . Millions of people have viewed the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963 , the landing of Apollo 11 in 1969 , the wedding of Prince Charles and Princess Diana in 1981 , the death of Princess Diana , and the September 11 attacks on their televisions . In fact , certain questions like '' " What were you doing when ... . happened ? " '' , usually referring to a large , heavily-mediatized event , have become a very important question in the history of the development of the collective memory
September 11 attacks
September 11 attacks
Collective memory