Jesus, I didn't say that we were in an information dark age, I just said we didn't have the media saturation even 10 years ago that we have today. In 2005, news didn't spread more quickly via twitter than CNN. There was plenty of access, it just wasn't a 24/7 media blitz of every little detail of every single thing that happened to anyone with even a sliver of notoriety.
Why are you comparing a murder, giant gambling scandals, and the throwing of a World Series to an A-hole putting his junk in someone's face in college? I also heard about the Titanic, the Hindenburg, and WWII, but I feel like the magnitude is a little different.