By the late 1960’s, the war in Vietnam was raging and the public’s viewpoint of the merits of military academy schooling was waning. Much as wagon makers and buggy wing manufacturers had disappeared as the world changed around them with the advent of automobiles, so was the world changing for America’s military academies. Many military academies closed during this timeframe. SMA, while still ranked high in its educational and military credentials, was ill equipped to cope with and survive these changes.
03/28/2011 5:48:24 AM PDT
· 11 of 15 Tank-FL
to Homer_J_Simpson
Are we more able students today - or were the folks who sat and read the NY Times in 1941 a more able student(s)?
I wonder many times as I read the news from 1941, what did the average reader understand - let me elaborate a bit. If I pickup a NYT and read it today, I know I am getting bias information and I filter it with that bias in mind. This filtering goes for the Washington Post, St. Pete Times, Politico, Free Republic, etc. Did the FOLKS do the same? What did they understand?
I know that so many people today who do read the NY Times see no bias in it at all. I find it very hard to believe so many either refuse to admit the bias or are just so lacking intelligence to understand.