How many here have cut the cord on tv?

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129. Witness History - Love the Arts

Television has allowed me to witness ...

The election of Barack Obama as President of the United States.
The historic first inauguration of Barack Obama as President of the United States.

I saw the fall of the Berlin Wall on TV.
The devastation of hurricane Katrina.

I saw live the destruction of thew second World Trade Center tower on September 11.

I've seen in real-time virtually every presidential debate since 1976.
And many U.S. Senate, U.S. Representative and governor election debates and forums over the past 40 years.

I am old enough to have watched Walter Cronkite announce the death of President Kennedy on TV.
And the Kennedy funeral.

I saw live the first man set foot on the moon.
And two space shuttle disaster.

Now, I can watch all the movies of Luis Bunuel through Netflix or DVD on television ... and the art of Hitchcock, Goddard, Kubrick, Renoir, Truffaut, Lang, Lubitsch, Fellini, etc.

Television is a wondrous technology -- denying it is like denying the marvels of advanced, high-tech medicine.

Judgement, discretion, self-control -- as with anything in life is what makes how an individual handles television programing either a curse or a blessing.