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...impact of petitions is hard to measure. No doubt they dramatized-and perhaps exaggerated-the intellectual community's discontent with U.S. Viet Nam war policy. By now, however, petitioning ads have become seriously overworked. Donald Keys, SANE's executive director, says: "Now it's not enough to run full-page ads in the New York Times. You have to run double-page spreads." In fact, petitions are apt to be most successful on local issues. Nationally, a notable failure involved the school prayer amendment, which again died in Congress, even though Sponsor Everett Dirksen could point...
However the story is handled, its impact is predictable. Together, the Cronkite and Huntley-Brinkley reports are watched by an estimated aggregate of 30 million people, and it is claimed that 70% of that audience is made up of adults. One particularly popular news special, such as Pope Paul's visit to the U.S. last year, can easily focus the attention of 150 million viewers. Even at the dullest point of the Fulbright hearings on Viet Nam, several million people were tuned...
Amplifying Prejudices. As a result of its extraordinary impact, TV news has become a powerful force encouraging social ferment. Early in the civil rights revolution, Negro activists made it perfectly clear that wittingly or unwittingly, the TV cameraman was their ally. Marches were staged and demonstrations timed to get full coverage. By reporting the whole movement, TV added to its momentum. The sight of Bull Connor's dogs attacking Birmingham Negroes served as a catalyst for the conscience of most of the nation...
...Context. The range is virtually unlimited, the impact almost awesome, the promise increasingly impressive. Yet there is general agreement that TV news still falls short of its potential. "It is hard for television newscasting to serve the more mature purposes of journalism," says Harold Fleming, director of the Potomac Institute. "It is hard for TV to give perspective, to put things in context...
...been encouraging scientific and engineering firms to move into the area. But these goals, though disrupted by an eight-lane highway, are still not entirely thwarted. An M.I.T. that encourages a well-designed depressed highway through the City could do a great deal to ease the Inner Belt's impact on Cambridge, and minimize the damage to the Institute's own plans as well...