Interestingly, it seems as though the Queen's coronation was the defining moment in the UK where the presence or absence of a TV was noted. In the US, the broadcasting of the manned space flights in 1961 and 1962 were probably the defining moment when many people without televisions realized that they would have to get them or be left out of modern communications. My mother actually worked in TV in the early 1950s, so my parents already had one before I was born, but I don't remember anyone other than high-brow types not having them by the time of the space flights. They actually wheeled a TV into the gymnasium of my elementary school and assembled us there so that we could watch one of these launches. I think it struck me as more amazing to see a TV in the school, an institution seemingly implacably opposed to TV, than to see a manned space flight. I am still reeling from the discovery that Donald Duck had a weekly magazine in the 1963. This week it was announced that New Orleans major newspaper, the Times-Picayune is going to stop publishing daily, and go to 3 times a week, making New Orleans the first major US city without a daily paper. So, now New Orleans in 2012 will be approaching the publication status of Donald Duck in 1963. Whither print media? Devon
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