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<DIV>You didn't imagine it. I was born in 1957 and raised by "The One-eyed Babysitter" - I clearly remember the war being on TV at 6:00 and 10:00 in the late '60's and dominating news coverage in an age when there were only 3 channels. I also recall much more coverage of protests and demonstrations, even in comparison to CSPAN.</DIV>
<DIV><BR>Randy</DIV>
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<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid">-----Original Message----- <BR>From: Art Browning <ART.BROWNING@GMAIL.COM><BR>Sent: Mar 26, 2007 11:43 PM <BR>To: Lee Loe <LEELOE@IGC.ORG><BR>Cc: Art Browning <ABROWNING@PDQ.NET>, discuss@paa-tx.org <BR>Subject: Re: [PAA-Discuss] Comes from a deeper place ~ <BR><BR>
<P align=left><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>From an article titled </FONT><FONT size=2><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: arial,sans-serif">"WAR ON TELEVISION" from Museum of Broadcast Communications. <BR></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>(<A href="http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/W/htmlW/warontelevi/warontelevi.htm" target=_blank>http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/W/htmlW/warontelevi/warontelevi.htm </A>)<BR></FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>"Television coverage also inspired controversy during the Vietnam War (1962-1975). Despite clear evidence that the war effort was less than successful in objective terms, popular opinion and much expert military opinion regard the Vietnam War as one that could have been won on the battlefield but was lost in the living room (where viewers watched their television sets). Reporters who covered the war in the early 1960s remember, however, that most of that early coverage was laudatory and that, in the words of Bernard Kalb who would later join the Cable News Network (CNN), there was "an awful of lot of jingoism...on the part of the press in which it celebrated the American involvement in Vietnam." Methodical scholarly accounts of televised coverage also uniformly discover that television coverage was inclined overall to highlight positive aspects of the Vietnam War and that viewers exposed to the most televised coverage were also most inclined to view the military favorably. Nevertheless, domestic social schisms blamed on the Vietnam War and the war's ultimate failure to sustain a non-Communist regime in Vietnam are often blamed on television and other media.</FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>"Whether the public turned against the Vietnam War because television, in particular, and the media, in general, presented it unfavorably, or whether the public turned against the war because media accurately depicted its horrors and television did so most graphically remains an open and hotly contested question in the public debate. There is, however, no historic evidence to prove that a graphic portrayal of war disinclines a viewing public to engage in a war. Some critics suggest that the opposite may be the case when a public considers a war justified and is exposed to images of its side enduring great suffering."</FONT></P>
<P align=left>You had me thinking that I only imagined seeing war scenes on our old black and white TV set before leaving home for college in 1965.</P>Perhaps a lot of the coverage I remember came from LIFE magazine, and I supplied the motion. And emotion, though a lot of that came from my (liberal) parents. <BR><BR>Art<BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY><PRE>
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"Taken For A Ride" available for viewing by any Houston group
concerned with public transit, peak oil, corporate lobby groups.
<a href="http://www.newday.com/films/Taken_for_a_Ride.html">http://www.newday.com/films/Taken_for_a_Ride.html</A>
Documentary describes how GM, oil companies, tire makers & highway builders
conspired to destroy public transit in American cities.
Contact me to arrange a viewing for your group.
I can bring a VCR, you provide the TV.</PRE>