Sunday, April 5, 2009
The Sunday Morning Muse, April 5, 2009
Thirty years after Three Mile Island. I was only a young teenager when it happened, and barely remember it as a blip on the radar screen of my youth, even though I live here in the Keystone State. I found this Walter Cronkite newscast and it is fascinating to watch. Even if just to see how much things have changed in broadcasting and news conferences. The black and white video also makes it strangely surreal. Like you are waiting for the end of the world and Walter Cronkite will patiently tell you when it will arrive.
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I've been in sort of a self imposed newsblock lately, so I didn't even realize the 30 year anniversary of the event until I started Googling it. Actually I was going to rave about North Korea's missle launch today, and how we really need to put this nuclear nonsense to bed somehow before the whole planet gets destroyed. Now I feel this need to dig up something from the No Nukes Concert from way back then. I think I had it on an eight track.
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That was bizarre to watch. I remember when this happened. My aunt lives in the area and she told me that when they checked the radiation levels at her workplace in Hershey, they were off the charts.
It was so wild to see the news from back then. I'd love to go back to that. Just reporting. No fancy weird techno-shit clogging up the screens and zooming in and distracting you. No 15 second sound bytes. This was 10 minutes of reporting on one story!
Anyway, fascinating stuff.
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