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Brian Jones
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Date Posted: 18:23:08 05/17/15 Sun
In reply to:
Wes
's message, "Forgotten anniversaries" on 14:34:02 05/11/15 Mon
>Another column picked up from the paper. I was
>going to post this last week but I got sidetracked.
>
>I spend a fair amout of time following the national
>news, mostly on the Internet, and then mostly because
>I can pick and choose which stories interest me,
>rather than hearing more useless stuff about the
>Karadashians, which doesn't strike me as news at all.
>
I've heard the name, but no idea who they are. The same with so many "celebrities".
>At least catching news on the Internet allows me to
>avoid some of the more obnoxious television
>commercials, although the popups and addons in the
>Internet are getting to be just about as irritating
>and useless.
>
>But I digress.
>
>Several times in the past few days I've been impressed
>about things that haven't made the news, or if they
>have, they're barely been mentioned.
>
>For example, last Thursday, April 30, was the 70th
>anniversary of Hitler's death, one of the important
>landmarks of the twentieth century. I saw a grand
>total of one story on the subject.
>
Here in England, there was news coverage of VE Day, which was an important anniversary, 70 years since the ending of the fighting within Europe. The anniversary had little coverage in other recent years. However, some soldiers from this country were still involved in the conflicts with Japan, until VJ Day.
The death of Hitler and other of the fanatics was included in the general news coverage of the VE events.
There is so much history that we could learn, but I have no need to know who was King or President in a particular year. However, a general knowledge of history should be known by everyone. For example, various European countries went exploring beyond their local areas and sailed across unknown oceans to discover the Americas, Southern Africa, Asia and Australia/New Zealand. Also major events like the World Wars also Civil Wars. Two battles during the English Civil War happened within a few miles of my home, but who wants to know that. Though that civil war is important within the United Kingdom.
I've learnt more history since leaving school, through travel, also in more recent times the Internet.
The way news reaches people has changed massively in recent years. A local weekly newspaper, then called the 'Worcester Postman', printed stories that arrived in the packet brought from London. The story could be an event weeks previous, but unknown to the local population. They did not print news of local events, as they would already be known. During the period 1935-1975, the local evening paper printed several editions during the day with international, national and local news, updating news stories for local sales! Very limited radio or television news availability Now they do a single morning edition and also have a web site. Sales are far less than they used to be.
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