What did we learn from the Assassination?

So what did we learn from the assassination of John F. Kennedy. We learned that not only did this event give the media a different idea on what kind of events they can cover, but it also gave the media the need to cover everything. According to usnews.com article, "How JFK's Assassination Changed TV Forever," we also learned that this was, "The moment when the television generation came to age." Take a moment and think, their were very few television stations back in 1963, their were also not very many TV's. This moment of one of the first moments that brought the public tv industry together to broadcast the same thing to let Americans know what had happened.

We learned that television did something that people thought was impossible. If that specific crisis happened today, imagine how fast in would be covered and put on tv, and how viral the media will go, and how viral the world will go.