What is the first news story you remember being broadcast on television (as a child)?
Mine was on a television like this, in black and white and it was of the assassination of JFK.
Mine was on a television like this, in black and white and it was of the assassination of JFK.
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CopperCicada · M
We had a single black and white TV upstairs. Every day I would watch Lost in Space, other half hour shows like Hogan's Heroes, the Jetson's.
I wasn't supposed to change the station because the knob was dicey. But I did. I would watch Walter Cronkite report the news. Back when news was news and not a reality boutique.
The first and only story I watched was the Vietnam War. I did this every day when I was four and five. I really had no context. It was hard getting my parents to talk about it frankly. So I just kept watching it.
It fucked with my head. I remember it creating this huge ambivalence playing with my green army men. And then I got a GI Joe. I still played with them, but there was this reality there were connected to that I saw on TV.
Not having a clue watch I was watching really fucked with me. I remember not sleeping one night and getting up and asking my folks if I would get drafted. If my dad would get drafted. Then my folks knew I was watching Cronkite.
I wasn't supposed to change the station because the knob was dicey. But I did. I would watch Walter Cronkite report the news. Back when news was news and not a reality boutique.
The first and only story I watched was the Vietnam War. I did this every day when I was four and five. I really had no context. It was hard getting my parents to talk about it frankly. So I just kept watching it.
It fucked with my head. I remember it creating this huge ambivalence playing with my green army men. And then I got a GI Joe. I still played with them, but there was this reality there were connected to that I saw on TV.
Not having a clue watch I was watching really fucked with me. I remember not sleeping one night and getting up and asking my folks if I would get drafted. If my dad would get drafted. Then my folks knew I was watching Cronkite.