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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: Tucker on November 25, 2013, 01:19:51 PM
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Mon Nov 25, 2013, 12:35 PM
Star Member thucythucy (1,496 posts)
CBS has been streaming its entire coverage of the JFK assassination
--four days of black and white TV reporting of the events as they happened--from the first reports of "shots fired at the president's motorcade in Dallas" to the services at Arlington Cemetery this afternoon. Thanks to "Brooklynite" for turning me on to this.
I've been watching off and on since Friday afternoon, and it's been a chilling, sad, sobering experience.
There's lots I could say about this, but one thing that strikes me immediately is how TV news reporting has declined these past five decades. The CBS coverage--warts and all--is on the whole sober, solemn, respectful to both the president and his family, and to the American people. Last night, for instance (which means the night of November 24, 1963), CBS broadcast Leonard Bernstein conducting the New York Philharmonic performing Mahler's Second Symphony (the "Resurrection Symphony") in its entirety--perhaps the most stunning and beautiful piece of network TV I have ever seen.
Imagine if the unthinkable were to happen today--imagine how the networks and cable TV would respond. Special logos--"America in Crisis!!!!!!"--special "theme music"--talking heads blathering on about whatever nonsense first comes to mind.
I simply can't imagine any network today--with the exception of C-Span and the possible exception of PBS--following the course of events without breaking in for a "round table" discussion featuring the inane comments of George Will, Ann Coulter, et. al. I can't imagine this kind of somber respect for history as it unfolds. Not that the coverage was perfect--first reports for instance had a Secret Service agent killed with the president--but on the whole what I've seen is head and shoulders above anything I've ever seen on network TV news. And it's not only Walter Cronkite. It's Dan Rather, Roger Mudd...the whole team was superlative.
I think every journalist and every journalism student in America should sit down and watch these four days of continuous TV.
How sad--not only the events themselves, of course--but to think also how TV news has been dumbed down as it has.
Response to thucythucy (Original post)
Mon Nov 25, 2013, 12:45 PM
duffyduff (1,919 posts)
1. I totally agree
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The concert footage was great. I didn't see that the first time around because my parents had the television off. They also had the television off during the roundtable discussions. Back then, we had academics like Mark Van Doren talk about the significance of the assassination.
Now it's just political operatives whose IQs are in the single digits pontificating and trying to tell us what to think.
The ONLY time there was clear journalist opinion in the original CBS coverage of the assassination was Harry Reasoner excoriating people who were upset their regular programs were preempted because of the coverage.
The assassination coverage has been called a time when "television came of age." I call it the high point in television history.
Everybody should see it, no matter how painful it is to watch.
Which part was painful?
Response to thucythucy (Original post)
Mon Nov 25, 2013, 02:01 PM
napkinz (4,619 posts)
13. re "comments of George Will, Ann Coulter, et. al"
and Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann, Steve Doocy, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh
What would Walter Cronkite and David Brinkley think if they were still with us?
(Can you imagine Walter Cronkite turning to Sarah Palin for her "analysis"?)
And you expect unbiased reporting from a dyke, a misogynist or a colored racist holding a bag of poop?
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Well it did spawn a whole new group of conspiracy theory whack-jobs to point and laugh at, so there's that.
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Flame away, but I stopped giving a shit about it decades ago, if anyone masterminded it, he is either dead or waiting for his daily game of checkers or dominoes in a nursing home. Kennedy has been vastly overestimated in retrospect, and the nuts and bolts and clothes-tearing anguish of all who were so invested in Camelot at the time have all the relevance to things today of a Prussian court intrique from the Seven Years War.
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With the current batch of leftist propagandists in power back in 63, how soon would it have the assassination been blamed on the republican party?
A) 60 SECONDS
B) 30 SECONDS
C) 15 SECONDS
D) .1 SECOND
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No need to give the ending away, he died!
Star Member thucythucy
Imagine if the unthinkable were to happen today--
There would be loud applause from 54 percent of America.......
http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/inside-politics/2013/nov/12/obama-hits-lowest-approval-rating-presidency-poll/
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No need to give the ending away, he died!
There would be loud applause from 54 percent of America.......
http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/inside-politics/2013/nov/12/obama-hits-lowest-approval-rating-presidency-poll/
Unthinkable is a very inappropriate term in that context.
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With the current batch of leftist propagandists in power back in 63, how soon would it have the assassination been blamed on the republican party?
A) 60 SECONDS
B) 30 SECONDS
C) 15 SECONDS
D) .1 SECOND
Just as quickly as they did back then - A near instantaneous response. L.H. Oswald was (Like nearly every other incident involving a shooting) an unhinged leftist with firearms. There was NO WAY that the other leftists would let that stand, so they cooked up a billion CTs to explain away and/or obfuscate that undesirable truth.
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King Hussein has nothing to fear from the Right. No good and decent person wants to see him become a martyr. If you think the Kennedy worship is bad, think about this: commemorative plates with King Hussein's Il Duce face surrounded by a halo, and little statuettes of King Hussein kneeling with his hand on a child's head. Now imagine them in shrines in half of the households in America. People would start ascribing miracles to him, and the Kennedys would try to get him canonized.
It's the batshit morons on the left he should fear. They don't think; they only feel.
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A real head turner (back and to the left, hat tip, Oliver Stone)
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A real head turner (back and to the left, hat tip, Oliver Stone)
Mystery solved...
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBz3PqA2Fmc[/youtube]
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Flame away, but I stopped giving a shit about it decades ago, if anyone masterminded it, he is either dead or waiting for his daily game of checkers or dominoes in a nursing home. Kennedy has been vastly overestimated in retrospect, and the nuts and bolts and clothes-tearing anguish of all who were so invested in Camelot at the time have all the relevance to things today of a Prussian court intrique from the Seven Years War.
The best thing Kennedy ever did for his legacy was get shot AND have his wife be around to spin the Camelot/martyred by Communism myth. He's remembered because of who he married far more than what he did even after he treated her like shit. Well, she did certainly get something out of the Faustian bargain she made but probably not what she expected.
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Flame away, but I stopped giving a shit about it decades ago, if anyone masterminded it, he is either dead or waiting for his daily game of checkers or dominoes in a nursing home. Kennedy has been vastly overestimated in retrospect, and the nuts and bolts and clothes-tearing anguish of all who were so invested in Camelot at the time have all the relevance to things today of a Prussian court intrique from the Seven Years War.
+1
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I've been watching off and on since Friday afternoon, and it's been a chilling, sad, sobering experience.
:whatever:
Something that happened 50 years ago and has been replayed more times than the entire canon of Gilligans' Island, to include all subsequent syndication planet-wide....
...and you get sad and sober (I'll bet).
:yawn: Give it a rest, pearl-clutcher.
Quote from: DumbAss Tanker on Today at 10:56:00 am
Flame away, but I stopped giving a shit about it decades ago, if anyone masterminded it, he is either dead or waiting for his daily game of checkers or dominoes in a nursing home. Kennedy has been vastly overestimated in retrospect, and the nuts and bolts and clothes-tearing anguish of all who were so invested in Camelot at the time have all the relevance to things today of a Prussian court intrique from the Seven Years War.
Never really cared. No memory of it and once the real stories started to trickle through the LIbEral fantasy, I came to really loathe the guy and the majority of the family. Nothing but mob-monied pond scum.
Now it's just political operatives whose IQs are in the single digits pontificating and trying to tell us what to think.
And who swigs the crap down in huge gulps and repeats it almost verbatim, Einstein?