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Nothing But The Blur of Travelling Time
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(Recently declassified USAF documents detail “Project 1794”, an attempt by the Air Force to build a flying saucer with a top speed of Mach 4 and a range of 4,000 nautical miles)
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zissou the bear
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This Day in History: Truman Delivers First Ever Televised Presidential Address
On October 5, 1947, President Truman appeared on TV.
Via Politico:
In his speech, Truman called on Americans to conserve food to help hard-pressed Europeans, still recovering from the devastation caused by the war and threatened with a massive winter famine. He asked the agricultural industry and distillers to reduce grain use. He asked Americans to forgo eating meat on Tuesdays and eggs and poultry on Thursdays and to consume one fewer slice of bread every day.
At the time, there were only 44,000 televisions in the States. Radio still ruled, with some 40 million of them in a country of about 144 million people.
By 1960 there were 52 million televisions in the country and an estimated 70 million watched Kennedy and Nixon in the first televised presidential debate.
Image: President Truman delivers the first televised presidential address. AP via Politico.
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Roy Lichtenstein
Pyramids II, 1969
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It’s easy to assume reality TV is the place where bad TV went to hide when the rest of TV got a lot better. Like that old Wild West town where criminals congregate, reality TV is often perceived as the last, “vast wasteland”: uncouth, desperate, lawless.
But while some shows seem irredeemably bad (Here Comes Honey Boo Boo, anyone?), others offer an indication of good things to come. In fact, by turning all of us into virtual anthropologists, reality TV may lead to the improvement – dare I say it – of Western civilization. Reality TV may even be the next stage in the evolution of television.
Read more @ Wired Opinion.
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untitled by sannah kvist on Flickr.
