Yahoo reveals recent search trends:
Searches on Sunday for Osama bin Laden spiked nearly 100,00% on Yahoo!, also making him the most-searched person of the day. Nearly 1 in 5 searches for “osama bin laden” are by teenagers, many of who grew up during the war on terrorism. 25% of searches overall for Osama came from those under 24.
Image via Jamelle Bouie, who adds:
[I]t's sobering; not because it reveals anything profound about our educational system or the attacks on 9/11, but because it points to an absolute truth: for each generation, America is a very different place, and the America we lost on 9/11 — the America that didn't profile citizens, torture people, or monitor their phone calls — isn't even a distance memory for the children and teenagers of today's America.
The Dish 