That wasn't really my point. I think the item to which I responded was that
the advent of television was a major "event", and the examples given to
illustrate TV were all American events (Kennedy, Lincoln, Vietnam War - ok
that wasn't all yours -  and Jonesboro)....anyway, let's not get into
patriotic battles (although, off the top of my head, I do think that our
Prime Minister LB Pearson's plan which averted the Suez Crisis in 1957 and
for which he won the Nobel Peace Prize might qualify as one small contribution.)


At 11:23 AM 03/02/99 -0700, you wrote:
>I wouldn't say that WWI or WWII "happened" in the US.
>Or that space exploration was solely a US undertaking.
>Please feel free to cite examples of Canadian events that steered the course
>of the 20th century.
>
>I agree that it is a shame that the US television news so often focuses only
>on US events, but print media (NY Times or the Globe & Mail, for example,
>seem to cover an international array of news stories.)  Instead of getting
>all of one's news from the tube, there are other options.
>
>> ----------
>> From:         Jane Sproull Thomson
>> Reply To:     Museum discussion list
>> Sent:         Wednesday, February 3, 1999 9:18 AM
>> To:   [log in to unmask]
>> Subject:      Re: Your TOP EVENT / DECISION that shape
>>
>> 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
>>
>
>
Jane Sproull Thomson