04-01-2014, 11:49 PM
Jim,
Thank you for your extremely detailed commentary on the deplorable media coverage of the JFK assassination at the time of the 50th anniversary.
I appreciated how you mentioned the lapses on the part of PBS to update the public on the new discoveries made especially in the past decade. Incredibly, the only program from Frontline was the rebroadcast of a 1993 two-hour program, Who Was Lee Harvey Oswald? Astonishingly, there was no attempt to revise the program, based on new information on Oswald uncovered over the past two decades. Where were John Armstrong or John Newman to offer their insights? There was not even a Frontline host or narrator to add any new details. Rather, it was a verbatim script from 1993!
Frontline recently aired a superb two-hour documentary on the endemic problem of concussions in the NFL and how the top brass among owners and the Office of the Commissioner had engaged in a "conspiracy" to refuse to acknowledge the seriousness of the long-term effects of head trauma to NFL players. The program, which was entitled League of Denial: The NFL's Concussion Crisis, aired around the time of the 50th anniversary of the death of JFK. The Frontline staff had no problem in delving into the "conspiracy" of the NFL Commissioner, owners, and loyal team doctors.
So, why couldn't Frontline explore the JFK assassination with an equal amount of integrity? The answer is that the subject is taboo.
James
Thank you for your extremely detailed commentary on the deplorable media coverage of the JFK assassination at the time of the 50th anniversary.
I appreciated how you mentioned the lapses on the part of PBS to update the public on the new discoveries made especially in the past decade. Incredibly, the only program from Frontline was the rebroadcast of a 1993 two-hour program, Who Was Lee Harvey Oswald? Astonishingly, there was no attempt to revise the program, based on new information on Oswald uncovered over the past two decades. Where were John Armstrong or John Newman to offer their insights? There was not even a Frontline host or narrator to add any new details. Rather, it was a verbatim script from 1993!
Frontline recently aired a superb two-hour documentary on the endemic problem of concussions in the NFL and how the top brass among owners and the Office of the Commissioner had engaged in a "conspiracy" to refuse to acknowledge the seriousness of the long-term effects of head trauma to NFL players. The program, which was entitled League of Denial: The NFL's Concussion Crisis, aired around the time of the 50th anniversary of the death of JFK. The Frontline staff had no problem in delving into the "conspiracy" of the NFL Commissioner, owners, and loyal team doctors.
So, why couldn't Frontline explore the JFK assassination with an equal amount of integrity? The answer is that the subject is taboo.
James