The sense of national catastrophe is inevitably heightened in a television age, when the whole country participates in it.
Source: On explosion of Challenger space shuttle; in NY Times, 29 Jan 86
-- R W Apple, Jr, (Nov 20 1934-2006), US journalist; He was the Washington. DC. bureau chief of the NY Times, 1993-; author of Europe: An Uncommon Guide, 1986.