Word: medias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Madalyn Murray O'Hair, Sirhan Sirhan, Thoreau, the current student radicals, Timothy Leary and Ralph Nader all are radical activists, not mere eccentrics as you have labeled them. Their motive is to change existing social mores or political trends by means of spectacular acts covered by the news media, whether these acts be legal challenge or murder...
Such a proposal requires great faith in people's ability to perceive their own interests. It may be that such faith is outmoded in this age of manipulation by mass media. But the fact remains that there is no plausible route to radical change in America that does not involve the support by the majority of the population. The Cubans or the Vietnamese are not going to save us, and there can be no talk of violent revolution from within while the government continues to control the instruments of violence. The second fact is that the radical solution, in whatever...
...communal integration, made possible at last by the electronic media, could create the universality of consciousness foreseen by Dante when he predicted that men would continue as no more than broken fragments until they were unified into an inclusive consciousness. Mysticism is just tomorrow's science dreamed today...
...convention disorders, the Review noted approvingly that editors "nervously let their reporters set down uncomplimentary facts about the police and the mayor." But post-conventian coverage was something else. After out-of-town newsmen left Chicago, the Review claimed, "Mayor Daley was permitted to take over the media. Our own editorialists told us that we didn't really see what we saw under those blue helmets." The Review charged that the American had interviewed Police Superintendent James B. Conlisk about the disorders, then let him edit the resulting story...
Mead linked student unrest with its coverage by the media. "Everyone will get bored to death soon with student demonstrations. If T.V. gets bored, students will turn their attention to something else," she said...