TED JOHNSON:The Trump trial augurs badly for the public paying attention to balanced, in-depth coverage.
Yet the differences are also important: Millions of conscripts are not fighting in Vietnam.
The nation has fortunately been spared a wave of political assassinations.
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In retrospect, did we really understand what was swirling around us in the 60s?
Revelation of the Ellsberg Papers vividly underscored our ignorance about Vietnam, its causes and its impact.
The chaos of the 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago defied analysis and it may be about to be re-enacted.
Hollywoods stab at political truth-telling about the 68 convention slammed into a distribution blockade from its own studio.
Corporate power players at Paramount effectively vetoedMedium Cool, arguing that the studio was wounding their party.
JOHNSON:Will the public today be able to enter the truth amid the noise of political combat?
The major news organizations still struggle in how to cover Trump.
The nations polarization arguably has reached a breaking point.
I look at a younger generation and worry what is happening to their attention span.
But, personally, am I much better off?
I scroll and scroll and scroll only to find that my tentative optimism has been shredded by media noise.
One star explained that too much is happening too fast, making it scary to take sides.
Yet historians like Jon Meacham remind us that crises are the norm in maintaining a free society.
Succeeding kings Charles I and Il were of different faiths (Charles II was Catholic).
It hasnt happened yet.
