RE: Thanks, Ruth (was RE: UF6)

["Richard L. Hess" <lists@richardhess.com>]

Ah, yes, my father worked at CBS for a time and apparently they had the 

transcriptions of the broadcast locked away with a big sign "DO NOT AIR" 

for all the time he was involved with the library.



1938 was early in understanding the impact of media. It was pre-McLuhan.



It was a mistake that wasn't repeated...and probably the closest the media 

in the U.S. ever came to hurting people (other than a couple of Jerry 

Springer or similar shock-shows where audience members were hurt or 

killed--I don't think that counts).



Politics and hidden agendas abound in the ongoing saga of the digital 

television conversion project. Hopefully we'll all get over the bumps in 

the road in our respective professions.



Cheers,



Richard



At 02:15 PM 8/27/2002 -0600, Neil, David M wrote:

>Taking this to the level of broadcast media in general, might I refer you to

>the radio broadcast of H.G. Wells' "The War of the Worlds" one Halloween by

>Orson Wells.   In what he described as the radio equivalent of "jumping out

>of a bush, dressed in a sheet, and yelling 'Boo'", he read it as if it were

>news reports and set off a panic.  No loss of life, as I recall, but some

>property damage from folks with more firepower than discretion.  :-)  Seems,

>in the fog, a water tower looked like the Martian vehicles ...

>

>Dave Neil

>neildm@id.doe.gov

>

>-----Original Message-----

>From: Richard L. Hess [mailto:lists@richardhess.com]

>Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 10:40 AM

>To: radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu

>Subject: Thanks, Ruth (was RE: UF6)

>

>

>  At least mistakes in broadcasting (unlike nuclear and

>rockets) don't have quite the high risk to human life...ours is more of a

>pervasive, low-level degradation of life as we know it. What does the

>hormesis curve for TV look like? Or is TV truly LNT? <smile>



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