December 7 vs December 8

December 7th 1941. December 8th 1980. Two dates, linked only by their proximity on the calendar. Yet one day, is given higher treatment and better coverage than the other is in today’s media. What significant event happened on each day?
December 7th: The Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
December 8th: John Lennon is murdered.
December 7th: Announced to the United States by President Roosevelt.
December 8th: Announced to the United States by Howard Cosell.
December 7th: A date which will live in infamy.
December 8th: A date the music died.
December 7th: The reference to God - “With confidence in our armed forces - with the unbounding determination of our people - we will gain the inevitable triumph - so help us God.” President Roosevelt
December 8th: The reference to Christianity - “Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - rock 'n' roll or Christianity” John Lennon 1966.
December 7th: gave birth to the “greatest generation.”
December 8th: brought death to an influential person.
Which historical event received more recent news coverage? The event that changed the world or the event that changed an industry. The event that effected the whole population or the event that affected a few people.
On December 7, 2010, I suffered through 3 hours of CNN. The only statement about Pearl Harbor was a “This day in history” blurb. That’s it. No replays of Roosevelt’s speech. No interviews, past or current, of any survivor or military person. Nothing.
On December 8 2010, when I first changed to CNN they were giving a stirring tribute to John Lennon. Thirty minutes later, the coverage was still about Lennon. They interviewed musicians, actors, and politicians about the “impact that John Lennon had on their life.” Some of these people were not even born when Lennon was killed.
What is wrong with this scenario? Have we as a society gotten away from what is important to the development of the nation, and only focused on what makes us feel good. Lennon’s mantra of “Give peace a chance”, so prevalent that we lost the importance of the wars that were fought to preserve the American society. Do the media not think we should have gone to war and given “peace a chance?”
War is not a popular thing, nor is it something that should ever be entered into lightly. Yet, there comes a time when, unfortunately, war is the only thing that can accomplish peace. Had the United States not fought back, Hawaii, and possibly the whole west coast would be speaking Japanese. Europe and the east coast would be speaking German.
In order to get back to what is important, society has to make what is important to be important. John Lennon stated that Christianity would die out. So did Voltaire, Nietzsche, and an assortment of other philosophers and entertainers. What is common with them. They are dead, Christianity is not.
December 7 1941, brought out the ugliness of humanity. It also brought out the greatness of humanity. December 8 1980, brought out the ugliness of humanity. What greatness came from it?