Robert:
.... and at any one time less than 12% of the US population have a
passport, and about 48% of the current members of Congress have NEVER had
a passport! Doesn't stop you running a world that half your law-makers
and seven-eights of your citizens have never seen, except through
Hollywood and CNN.
Makes you think....!!
Patrick Boylan
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On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, Robert T. Handy wrote:
> You wrote: Isn't that why we still read different newspapers?
>
> Don't we wish! Twenty percent of the U.S. population reads a newspaper on
> a daily basis. That figure drops to fifteen percent in Texas. I ask just
> about everyone with I come in contact, if they read a newspaper every day.
> I am astonished at how many do not; even more so when I ask if they read a
> weekly news magazine. How on earth can people make informed decisions if
> they do not read?
>
>
> ------
> Robert Handy
> Brazoria County Historical Museum
> 100 East Cedar
> Angleton, Texas 77515
> (409) 864-1208
> museum_bob
> [log in to unmask]
> http://www.bchm.org
>
> ----------
> From: Olivia S. Anastasiadis[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 1999 1:29 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Your TOP EVENT / DECISION that shape
>
> Interesting point. I would like to get cable just so that I can brush up
> on my Greek by watching Antenna straight out of Athens, but it comes with
> 20 other channels I could care less about, so I am still holding strong,
> no cable in my house. I do watch ABC News but I also switch to PBS to
> listen to the BBC to learn more about world events and to get a different
> slant on things. Switching from the visual media, Isn't that why we
> still read different newspapers? To get different viewpoints? That's
> why TV really hasn't been the greatest invention, you can still tune it
> out.
>
> O
> Olivia S. Anastasiadis, Curator
> Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace
> 18001 Yorba Linda Boulevard
> Yorba Linda, CA 92886
> (714) 993-5075 ext. 224; fax (714) 528-0544; e-mail: [log in to unmask]
>
> On Wed, 3 Feb 1999 11:18:39 -0400 Jane Sproull Thomson
> <[log in to unmask]> writes:
> >I find it kind of interesting that the major events you mention all
> >happened
> >in the US. One of the reasons I had our cable disconnected was that
> >my sons
> >seemed to be getting the impression, since most cable stations are US
> >based,
> >that all world events happen in the US, and if it didn't happen in the
> >US it
> >wasn't important. Now we only watch the CBC news, which gives us a
> >Canadian
> >slant on events worldwide and uses BBC as well as ABC news reports.
> >Many
> >Americans take this dominance for granted...many of you probably don't
> >know
> >that at this moment, the US and Canada are engaged in a trade dispute
> >over
> >Canada's most recent attempt to protect its cultural industries
> >internally,
> >and the US's insistence that we have no right to do this.
> >What role do museums have in resisting cultural imperialism? Should we
> >even try?
> >
> >
> >At 10:44 AM 03/02/99 -0600, you wrote:
> >>In my opinion the invention of the Television changed everything. No
> >>longer did people have to rely on print or word of mouth the learn of
> >>events throughout the country or world. We could watch Kennedy being
> >>assasinated unlike those who learned of Lincoln's death. We could
> >watch
> >>the horrors of the Vietnam war instead of listening to reports over
> >the
> >>radio. The television puts us at the delivery of septuplets and the
> >>doorstep of death penalty vigils. I believe that with the TV's
> >delivered
> >>to our home brought more immediate knowledge than had ever been
> >known,
> >>even those who are illiterate in this day and time can remain
> >>knowledgeable through the TV; but we also lost our cultural
> >innocence.
> >> How much good news is reported in comparison to the amount of bad.
> >How
> >>many comparisons to the violence on television to the rise in
> >violence
> >>involving our youth, i.e. school murders in Jonesboro, Arkansas, do
> >we
> >>hear. There are people today who do not have computers but how many
> >>homes do not have TV's?
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >>From: Roger Smith
> >>Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 1999 4:08 AM
> >>To: [log in to unmask]
> >>Subject: Your TOP EVENT / DECISION that shaped th
> >>
> >>With Millennium 'madness' looming, I thought it might be rather fun
> >to
> >>invite LIST members and individuals to submit their pick of a single
> >>event
> >>or decision that, in their opinion, made the most impact upon this
> >>Century?
> >>
> >>The recommendations no doubt will be purely subjective ( perhaps a
> >trifle
> >>quirky) and should come with a short sentence of justification!
> >>
> >>
> >>The responses will be collated and published in the April edition of
> >>GLOBAL
> >>MUSEUM ( in the FORUM section).
> >>To save bandwidth, could I invite you to mail your contribution off
> >the
> >>list
> >>to:
> >>[log in to unmask]
> >>
> >>I am picking we will have a wide range of choices and l Iook forward
> >to
> >>receiving the nominations
> >>
> >>Roger
> >>
> >>http://www.globalmuseum.org
> >>
> >>
> >Jane Sproull Thomson
> >
>
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