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The funeral as a corporate process caused even the image of
sport to pale and dwindle into puny proportions. The Kennedy
funeral, in short, manifested the power of TV to involve an
entire population in a ritual process. By comparison, press,
movie and even radio are mere packaging devices for
consumers.
Most of all, the Kennedy event provides an opportunity
for noting a paradoxical feature of the “cool” TV medium. It
involves us in moving depth, but it does not excite, agitate or
arouse. Presumably, this is a feature of all depth experience.