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Cutler notes that Keagan decided to Invade Grenada
within a day after TV news carried pictures of the truck
bomb attack on the Marines in Beirut. He cites evidence
that the impact of those pictures on the president and
public "probably hastened his decision to take a bold
and prompt action when opportunity knocked in
another part of the world " But surely the decisive fact
was not television but what Cutler calls the "opportunity
Even Walter Mondale (although not Geraldine Ferraro)
now says the danger to VS. citizens on Grenada was
sufficient to Justify the invasion. And Kea-an may have
been ' certainly should have been at least as
impelled by the appeal from Eastern Caribbean leaders.
Cutler reports that immediately after the Invasion of
Afghanistan, Carter, eacr to announce the grain embar
go on camera in time for the evening news, plunged
ahead without regard for potential chaos in grain
markets. But this demonstrates only that television Is a
temptation. It is difScult to establish that the existence
of evening-news broadcasts makes television, in any
particular crisis the determinant of government action.
To establish that it had been the decisive factor in an
episode would establish only that officials had allowed
their choices to be controlled by their excessive concern
for the public's opinion of the hour.
Cutler's oddest exampl? concerns the Iranian hostage
debacle: "From time to time, the administration tried to
play down the hostage crisis so that world attention
would abate and quiet diplomacy would have a chance.
But the constant drumbeat of IV news removed that
policy option." No, that option was removed by the
candle-lighting, yeliow-ribbon-tying Carter, who chose
to say that the hostages were the first thing he thought
of In the morning and the last at night.
Television is Just a modern aggravation of an ancient
problem of popular government: the problem of electing
leaders who will occasionally act with due disregard for
the mood of the electorate. No doubt, having Sam
Donaldson and friends standing on your front lawn is
enough to make the average person nervous, but senior
officials should have bctter-than-averege nervous sys
tems. 1X24, Ucshtejlon Pctl WrJtirs Group
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TRAVEL AGENDA Your mission,
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