"We have these moments spontaneously - I think of them as CNN moments. The last one I had, probably most people had, was watching that weirdly Ballardian slow-motion freeway pursuit (of O.J. Simpson). Which was on every channel. That's as strange as it gets."
As it turns out, OJ wanted to go slow because he wanted to hear the end of the Finals game on the radio, although this wasn't publically known till decades later.