在众多的灾难性事件中,战争无疑是最引人关注的一种。人们报道和记录这些战争的方式日趋多样,这与物质的丰富、科技的进步密切相关。利用电视手段报道战争则更充分地体现了这一点。 “电视作为新闻报道的手段是没有争议的,但是与报刊和广播相比,电视像乡巴佬一样落后。”(《新闻周刊》1949年3月4日)这是50年前美国的主流社会对电视的评价。那时的电视节目主要是用16mm胶片像拍电影一样拍摄的,造价不菲。大多数电视台(当时全世界也没有多少家电视台)宁愿用它来摄制一些娱乐节目,因为这些节目可能会带来广告收入。而由于传输手段的落后,用胶片拍 In numerous catastrophic events, war is undoubtedly the most intriguing one. The ways in which people report and record these wars are becoming more and more diverse, which is closely related to the material abundance and the progress of science and technology. The use of television coverage of the war is more fully reflected this point. “Television is not controversial as a means of news coverage, but television is as backward as a country bumpkin compared to newspapers and radio.” (Newsweek, March 4, 1949) This is the first time in the mainstream American society that the television evaluation of. At that time, the television program was mainly shot with a 16mm film like a movie, which was expensive. Most television stations (and not many other TV stations around the world at that time) would rather use it to produce some entertainment because they may generate advertising revenue. However, due to the backward means of transmission, filming with film