John F. Kennedy Assassination
Alisha Kenwal
WHO, WHAT, WHEN, WHERE, WHY
MEDIA PERSPECTIVE #1
Six seconds in Dallas 50 years ago changed the way media worked for decades to come.The assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963, was a transformative live, global TV news event. It swept an industry without a playbook for covering a breaking story of such magnitude and utterly changed how people receive their new. For four days, starting with gunfire in Dallas and ending with Kennedy's funeral procession in Washington, major U.S. TV networks went live with wall-to-wall coverage, suspending commercials. The technology was primitive in 1963, but the idea was born of broadcasting live from the scene, having an anchor for the coverage and letting the images do the talking when possible. By the time the White House confirmed Kennedy's death just after 1:30 that Friday, 45.4 percent of U.S. homes with a television had their sets in use, according to ratings agency Nielsen. Japan's first satellite TV broadcast carried news of the JFK assassination. The initial plan was to receive a prerecorded message from Kennedy. Instead, Japanese learned of his death.
MEDIA PERSPECTIVE #2
MEDIA BIAS
CRITICISM #1 (HISTORICAL)
CRITICISM #2 (MARXIST)
CITATIONS
November 22, 1963: President of United States Assassinated t." - John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum. Web. 2 May 2016.