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Cavalcade USA Riptide WSC Public Policy Conference O O Q O O O O Television tieetaology stems Americans numbers we drop into place in lieu of any By STEVE DALEY Chicago Tribune CHICAGO — Could it be that everything seems to come as a surprise to us because our television news wishes to take us “around the world in 30 minutes”? Suddenly the government of Panama is in the hands of a thug who spent years on the payroll of the Central Intelligence Agency Suddenly our allies the Israelis always the good guys in the Middle East where the American press is concerned are being perceived differently as troops put down Palestinian skirmishes And suddenly in the span of a few days TV pictures out of Northern Ireland offered two scenes of horrific violence one in a graveyard the other in a funeral procession Some years ago we were stunned when our pal the Shah of Iran was run out of his country We were amazed to learn that Grenada was a threat to our national security We were horrified and confused when 241 marines were killed in their beds in Lebanon drug-runni- We accept these traumatic events with the same finality we accept scores from the NCAA basketball tournament When we’re confused by information in this information age as we often are we keep score In fact we cling to the statistics to the Weqkof Mar27-Ap- r 2 sort of understanding: 2600 dead in Northern Ireland in the last 20 years 90 Palestinians confirmed dead by the Israeli government one Israeli soldier killed by gunfire the other day 15000 Panamanian soldiers allied with our onetime amigo Mr Noriega We are dazzled by our own technology by our capacity to peer into just about any corner of the world where a satellite might gain access by the sophistication of our news programming But millions of Americans are dumbindictments struck when are handed down against the hoodlum Noriega the head of a country so deeply t this century in our that Panamanians use American money as currency A television audience is shocked when a terrorist hurls grenades into a Belfast graveyard and when a gang of mourners slaughter a pair of British soldiers who ventured into the wrong area at the worst of times drug-trafficki- pocket-throughou- Over the weekend American viewers watched an Israeli soldier bleed to death shot by Palestinians A few days ago those same viewers saw videotape of Israelis beating Palestinians and in one moment an Israeli soldier wiping Arab blood off a military vehicle Reaction in this country to these events is perverse and fascinating Political punmation And it has little to do with intruauthorities such as sive cameras on the killing ground dits and former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger A handful of recent surveys indicate worry about the impact of television on virworld politics and the American foreign-polic- y that a majority of Americans now get And TV from information all their tually process if you did nothing but watch TV you’d We’re supposed to be concerned that likely be convinced that history is played one side or another in these confronta- out in a vacuum that the problems betions is “manipulating” the media that tween Catholics and the Protestants in the vivid images coming out of the MidNorthern Ireland somehow boiled over dle East and Panama and Northern Ire- for the first time last week that enmity land in fact cloud the issues between Israelis and Palestinians is some In his frequent appearances on Ameri- new television phenomenon can television Israeli Prime Minister YitWe are surprised by every new horror zhak Shamir sounds more like a TV critic and atrocity because we no longer bother than a prime minister bemoaning the to place anything that happens anywhere fact that the pictures out of the d in in any sort of context The the world West Bank make the Palestinians with the pictures that so conproblems appear to be victims cern Shamir is that they are invariably We’d all be better off according to Kis- disconnected and treated as isolated events singer and Shamir and a host of other international players if we didn’t see these In the age of television history bores offending pictures us That’s why everything is a surprise In one sense they’re right but not for It’s far too complicated to find out the the reasons stated whys and wherefores of events swirling There is no political argument here for around us It is simpler to pick our way from a “news brier wedged into a any side either in the Middle East or Belvideositcom to a prime-tim- e fast or Panama City But there is a concern that in this country one of the tape segment in a “world news roundup” wealthiest and most literate countries on on a local nightly newscast maybe right before the restaurant critic appears the planet there is a wealth of misinfor ready-for-hi- re Israeli-occupie- self-servi- — Standard-Examin- er TV Preview 5 |