04-12-2013, 03:56 AM
Increasingly I am finding it difficult to explain the very different political environment of the JFK assassinations and the other 3 that lead to our current 2 Republican Parties.
Today, people younger than 40 cannot really remember what full spectrum media was like.
They cannot remember what a less niche marketed communications environment was like.
No, I do not mean that the old 3 TV network model was not controlled. But it was also very different, and JFK's use of television-- seen for example in his conversion of OSTENSIBLY marketed "conservatives" in his September 1963 Western "Conservation Tour" showed the crowners of the coagulation of Machine pols, who wheeled and dealt via folks like Joe Alsop in Los Angeles, 1960-- that one of those old half-machine half something new pols was off their reservation, and talking sideways past their newspapered demarkations. That made him dangerous. Full spectrum.
That danger may have brought us the internet.
These differences in mediums must be brought to the fore in explaining why the elites perceived JFK as such a threat. The prison of today's inter netted spectrum will then be discernible.
Today, people younger than 40 cannot really remember what full spectrum media was like.
They cannot remember what a less niche marketed communications environment was like.
No, I do not mean that the old 3 TV network model was not controlled. But it was also very different, and JFK's use of television-- seen for example in his conversion of OSTENSIBLY marketed "conservatives" in his September 1963 Western "Conservation Tour" showed the crowners of the coagulation of Machine pols, who wheeled and dealt via folks like Joe Alsop in Los Angeles, 1960-- that one of those old half-machine half something new pols was off their reservation, and talking sideways past their newspapered demarkations. That made him dangerous. Full spectrum.
That danger may have brought us the internet.
These differences in mediums must be brought to the fore in explaining why the elites perceived JFK as such a threat. The prison of today's inter netted spectrum will then be discernible.