Bush and Gorbachev’s Malta Summit
December opened with a bang! We were becoming witness to one of the most historic events in modern times. For over 40 years the Cold War and arms build-up had been the way of life for all.
Suddenly the Berlin Wall crumbles taking communism along with it. We try to digest it all--Gorbachev and Pope John Paul, Gorby and Bush--East Germans and Poles and Czechs jubilant as they sense that democracy is hopefully near at hand.
On Dec. 3, I turn on the TV set to see this dramatic and sudden turn of events, events that will affect so many lives worldwide. Instead of seeing details unfolding of these monumental events, I am treated to reruns of “The Munsters,” “McHale’s Navy” and a couple of ballgames.
I feel somehow that if the world were on the brink of eternal peace or even eternal damnation, the broadcast industry, clones among themselves, would continue with the status quo of trash for the sake of the almighty buck.
The networks had a responsibility to present this most historic event in detail. How wonderful it would have been to bring us a moment in history when there may indeed be cause for celebrating the possibility of true peace and good will among men.
ANTHONY KRIKORIAN
Gardena
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