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Nothing is really real unless it happens on television.

For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.

In radio, they say, nothing happens until the announcer says it happens.

Everyone has a smart phone, and everything is recorded. One event spills into another. Conclusions come quickly at the near total expense of consideration of what just actually happened.

Nothing could be recorded in those days except by aiming a movie camera at the television screen. It was at least another 10 years before they had any kind of recording medium.

With the press there is no 'off the record.'

It was very hard to get any records, so the only source for us to really hear what was happening was listening to the Voice of America. We would be taping all the broadcast and then sharing the tapes and talking about it.