Are Americans thinking less about 9/11?

There’s been talk that Hurricane Katrina overshadowed this year’s anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. Maybe so, but consider a contrarian theory: The focus on Katrina may have worked to conceal the degree to which people are already losing interest in 9/11. There would, of course, have been much more 9/11 material in the media this month in the absence of Katrina, but that’s no guarantee that people would have paid attention to it. It’s not that Americans think the threat of terrorism has gone away.