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* The ''[[Hawaii Five-0|Hawaii Five 0]]'' episode "Kupale" is based partly on the real-life drama of the [[wikipedia:Hawaii Superferry|Hawaii Superferry]].
== [[Music]] ==
* [[The Beatles]] had two in [[wikipedia:Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band|the same album]]: Paul wrote "She's Leaving Home" after reading about [[Wanderlust Song|a girl who hit the road]], and John wrote "A Day in the Life" based on two news stories (the car accident and the holes found in a road; [[The Film of the Book]] in another stanza is probably ''How I Won The War'', in which he worked).
* This was common during the [[Protest Song]] movement of the early 1960's. Singers like [[Bob Dylan]] and [[Phil Ochs]] would write songs, often using old folk melodies, about current events. Three of the best examples of this are Dylan's "[[wikipedia:The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll|Lonesome Death of Hattie Caroll]]," about the real life killing of a poor black maid by a [http://threepanelsoul.com/view.php?date=2006-11-15 bored aristocrat]. "Hurricane", about Hurricane Carter a black boxer jailed instead of the two whites who started a shooting at a bar. And "Who Killed Davy Moore" about the boxer who died in the ring. Ochs (who studied journalism) called himself a "singing journalist" and titled his first album "All the News That's Fit to Sing".
* Dylan and Ochs both followed the footsteps of Woody Guthrie, who wrote songs like this; "Pretty Boy Floyd" and "Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)" are probably the most famous.
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* [[Gordon Lightfoot]] wrote and recorded two noteworthy songs about true events; his hit single "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" was in fact about the [[wikipedia:Edmund Fitzgerald|1975 sinking of the American Great Lakes freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald]], and "Black Day in July", a 1968 song about the [[wikipedia:1967 Detroit riot|1967 Detroit race riots]].
* [[Savatage]] based a [[Rock Opera]], ''The Wake of Magellan'', on such events. One being the murder of reporter Veronica Guerin by drug lords. The second being the Maersk Dubai incident, were the captain of a freighter ordered discovered stowaways to be thrown overboard.
* Brenda Ann Spencer's 1979 shooting rampage that killed two people and injured nine others was the inspiration for The Boomtown Rats' song
* Bruce Springsteen's "American Skin (41 Shots)", from the 1999 shooting of Amadou Diallo by four New York City police officers.
== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
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