In Popular Culture
Daniel Defoe alleged that hundreds of sailors escaped onto sandbanks exposed at low tide, but the people of Deal were so busy salvaging goods after the storm that they left the survivors to drown. The fact that many human remains were found in the wreck when she was first uncovered suggests that few managed to escape the wreck.
She was featured on the Channel 4 documentary series Wreck Detectives in 2003.
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“The lowest form of popular culture—lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people’s lives—has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.”
—Carl Bernstein (b. 1944)
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—Gloria Steinem (b. 1934)