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attitudes of passivity and detachment.
The banal and ritual remark of the conventionally literate,
that TV presents an experience for passive viewers, is wide of
the mark. TV is above all a medium that demands a creatively
participant response. The guards who failed to protect Lee
Oswald were not passive. They were so involved by the mere
sight of the TV cameras that they lost their sense of their
merely practical and specialist task.
Perhaps it was the Kennedy funeral that most strongly
impressed the audience with the power of TV to invest an
occasion with the character of corporate participation. No
national event except in sports has ever had such coverage or
such an audience. It revealed the unrivalled power of TV to
achieve the involvement of the audience in a complex process .