One reason to root for TV
Ken Burns, an American director who produces documentaries on wars, speaks about the power of images in a Telerama interview:
“Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait in August 1990, during the first gulf war. Late September, PBS [The remarkable American public channel] aired my movie on the American civil war - eleven and a half hours of black and white images, only Americans killing other Americans. Before the broadcast, 90% of viewers surveyed said they were supporting the war against Saddam. After, the appetite for war had diminished by a quarter.”
That is one good reason to root for TV. I am not sure he would get eleven hours to make his case on YouTube. I hear his new piece, The War, is a must-watch documentary on the second world war - the “good war” - with dozens of veterans telling their intimate stories and suffering.
