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?
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Robert Handy
Brazoria County Historical Museum
100 East Cedar
Angleton, Texas 77515
(409) 864-1208
museum_bob
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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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