It is the ephemeral nature of the medium that makes it a poor resource going forward....to the extent that people get their news only or primarily from tv, then it is not surprising. To be fair, it is not as if the NYT consistently reminds everyone that the US and Israel vetoed the resolution....so, I think this is an issue driven inforamtion void in which the lack of repitition on the tv is mirrored by a lack of repitition in the print media.
"Joe R. Golowka" <joeG at ieee.org> wrote: > No one yet has given any evidence whatever that personally watching TV
> leads to knowledge of anything.
Some would argue the opposite. "in surveys carried out by the Center for Studies in Communication of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, those who watched the most television on the Gulf War were the least informed about basic facts of life in the region.
Among the most frequent watchers, 32 percent thought Kuwait was a democracy; only 23 per cent were aware that there were other occupations in the Middle East besides Iraq's, and only 10 per cent had heard of the intifada, the most sustained revolt in modern Middle East history.
When queried as to which three nations vetoed the recent United Nations resolution calling for an international peace conference (the United States, Israel, and Dominica), 14 per cent correctly identified the U.S., but another 12 per cent thought it has to be Iraq. The Center's polls showed that only 13 per cent of these TV viewers were aware of what official U.S. policy was toward Iraq before the August 2 invasion." (From 'For Palestine' by Jay Murphy page iii)
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