Posted on 11/18/2013 9:13:31 AM PST by Nextrush
It might be one station out in the country or three in a medium sized city or five or more if you lived in a populated area in or around the big cities.
The hundreds yea thousands of channels or video options we can see today were but a dream.
We all felt terrible, especially for Jackie and the children, even though I am reasonably certain that both of my parents voted for Nixon three years earlier.
Saw CBS’s special the other night, it was mainly just the old ‘historic’ films. Did not seem to be sappy, schmaltzy, editorialized or anything, just the historic films and discussing things like that was the first time in TV history they went wall-to-wall coverage of an event. It was straight-forward.
bttt
If that happened today, the first thing that would happen is NBC would brand Oswald “a former marine so obviously a right wing militia type” then they would photoshop an NRA logo on his tee-shirt in that photo of him holding up the rifle, then somehow get racism involved in it, then they would blame Republicans for it while doing everything they could to hide Oswald obsession with Marxism.
If we’re smart we’ll use this week to educate people on the nature of communists like Oswald and Leftism in general.
It was like that when I began watching television in the mid 1960’s. I had a set in my own room by 1968.
The local educational station ran test patterns in the middle of the day back then in between their broadcasts for schools.
Today they would say the Indian was offensive, claim the cross is promoting Christianity which offends Muslims and say the arrows pointing slightly right is promoting right wing politics.
I remember they played the ‘Star Spangled Banner’ or something religious. Those were better times.
Why does almost every cable channel put an annoying logo at the lower right corner of the screen which sometimes blocks what can be viewed? Hate that.
Yep, pretty much a vast wasteland from a liberal point of view. Shows like: My Three Sons, Ozzie and Harriet, Make Room for Daddy, Lucy, Andy Griffith, Dick Van Dyke Show, Bonanza, Gunsmoke, Dragnet, Father Knows Best, Lassie. Spewing all those family and American values all across the land. Nothing like the Progressive and cutting edge educational stuff that we have today. Can you imagine, no PBS, no MTV, no MSNBC. Barbaric.
In 1960-61 hundreds of students watched cartoons in color at Penn State on one lonely tv set in the large hall. We marveled that we could actually see colored dots jumping around to form fuzzy figures.
CBS was still pouting because the FCC had un-selected their color system in favor of NBC’s after the Korean War.
The reason we have so much discussion of “conspiracy” is because the Left can’t look bad or be held responsible for bad things happening.
I was at the campus radio station one night back around 1980 when a left-wing African Studies major did a documentary featuring the last speech of Reverend Jim Jones before the mass suicide with the poisioned Kool Aid.
The student was using the tape, where Jones described his People’s Temple as “Marxist-Leninist”, as proof it was the CIA who was behind all the deaths in Guyana.
The Jones speech was of course a broadside at all his enemies, real and imagined.
Jones was a left-wing kook himself and the leftist student felt the need to rewrite history to fit.
All the more so with the Kennedy Assassination.
And look at what is going on in Venezuela today. Toilet paper shortages and shop owners being arrested for making “obscene” profits.
That’s because the Kennedy Administration’s Federal Communications Commission Chairman Newton Minow had decried television as a “vast wasteland” in a 1961 speech.
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He wouldn’t have had a chance in hell of getting elected without it — and Kennedy was the first to acknowledge that.
They are called watermarks and I’m pretty sure the content providers make them to that to help prevent piracy. Also, it identifies their stream so if somebody posts to YouTube, they will be able to send Google a take-down notice.
There was pecking order in the media.
During World War 2 they made Bill Paley of CBS a colonel, but David Sarnoff of NBC got to be a brigadier general.
too bad the DuMont network crashed and burn in the mid-50’s
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