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