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 >