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For God and Country: The Courier-Post of Camden, New Jersey, runs the banner "WE SHINE ON THE MOON" and sub-heads "Americans Feel New Togetherness … Doomsayers Wrong … Moon Walk Just A Breeze." President John F. Kennedy, who pushed the U.S. would win the Space Race, would have been proud.
The Local Angle: The Wapakoneta Daily News of Ohio, the hometown newspaper of Apollo 11 commander Neil Armstrong, points out that humanity didn’t make history here. Their neighbor did. As the Page One banner puts it:
"NEIL STEPS ON THE MOON."
An Evil Empire?: China, practices flagrant censorship. Renmin Ribao of Beijing – along with virtually all other newspapers in communist China – fails to mention on its front page the first landing of humans on the moon. The government of the world’s most populous country does not want it to know about the moonwalk -- an event that 500 million people are watching live on TV.
Quote of the Century: The Brazilian newspaper O Estado de Sao Paulo prints Armstrong’s famous quote – "One small step for man … one giant leap for mankind" on the front page in nine languages.
U.S.-less: The communist editors of L’Humanite, of France call the moonwalk a "dream from the depths of time realized" but manage to keep the words "United States" off its front page.
A Big Idea: The Eugene Register-Guard of Oregon and Managing Editor William L.K. Wasmann call the landing "a triumph made possible by men of vision in every race and time." His front-page editorial continues: "If Sunday’s Moonwalk shows enough men the nobility man is capable of, then we may have hope for mankind yet."
Truth in TV: The Christian Science Monitor of Boston, Massachusetts, notes that to the world, "it seemed almost as astounding to them that a quarter-of-a-million miles away they could see what was happening as it was actually happening."
Assorted Prose: The Champaign-Urbana Courier of Illinois prints everything The Associated Press writes, including … astronauts plodded "heavily like tired old cops on a beat in Staten Island … ghostlike … loading rock boxes like the last pirates off an island with a load of gold" onto their landing craft, "a surrealistic crab."
Most Obvious Pun: The The Winnipeg Tribune Canada, the New York Post, the New York Daily News and dozens of other newspapers decide July 21, 1969 is not Monday but "Moonday."
Love Us or Leave Us: Says a headline in The Abilene Reporter-News of Texas about those who oppose spending billions on space when war, poverty, crime and urban unrest haunt America: "Dissenters Outnumbered."
Spin Control: Pravda of Moscow, the Soviet Union, manages to keep the moonwalk story at the bottom of the page while the top headline says, "Collectivism is the Feature of the New World People," whatever that means.
Now that’s graphic: Kronen Zeitung of Vienna, Austria, offers a guided tour of American space "armour," featuring even the most frequently asked spacesuit question: How do the astronauts "go to the bathroom"? Answer: In an internal pouch that empties through a valve (marked in the infographic by the newspaper’s artists as number nine).
Greatest Risk Award: The Evening Standard of London, prints an elaborate color moonwalk illustration on Sunday (before the moonwalk). The Standard goes on sale Monday (after the moonwalk) – and sales double to 1.2 million. "We bet on the Americans," says production director Dennis Griffiths. But what if the moonwalk hadn’t happened? "We don’t like to think about that."
Simulated Photo: Aktuelt of Denmark uses a clear, crisp and totally staged NASA simulation photo to demonstrate the moon landing without saying the photo is fake.
Early Y2K: On July 21, 1969, Diario de Noticias of Lisbon, Portugal, declares: "The 21st Century starts today."
Weird Science: Gimbels celebrates the moment in an ad that says "we broke Newton’s law and the world saw with awe." What law was that, exactly?
Poetry In News: The New York Times prints "Voyage to the Moon" by poet Archibald MacLeish, who writes:
From the first of time,
before the first of time, before the
first men tasted time, we thought of you.
You were a wonder to us, unattainable,
a longing past the reach of longing,
a light beyond our light, our lives—perhaps
a meaning to us . . .
Now
our hands have touched you in the depth of night.
The special moon edition vanishes from newsracks, even with a press run increased by 75,000. Entrepreneurs sell the 10-cent newspaper for $1.
Tradition: The Wall Street Journal sticks to its guns and refusing to print a photograph of the moon landing, not even a week later.
The Penultimate Paragraph: Special recognition is due The Los Angeles Times for not doing anything to make this list.
News Judgment, 101: The Boston Globe forces itself to place the moon landing atop Page One, even though Massachusetts Sen. Edward M. Kennedy is charged on July 20 with leaving the scene of an accident for driving his car into a Chappaquiddick pond and killing 28-year-old Mary Jo Kopechne.
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Originally posted by Rockstar
The Penultimate Paragraph: Special recognition is due The Los Angeles Times for not doing anything to make this list.
My parents gave me a framed copy of that day's LA Times front page.
Headline:
WALK ON MOON
That's One Small Step for Man... One Giant Leap for Mankind
Lead story:
Armstrong Beams His Words to Earth After Testing Surface
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Supposedly what he really says is "One small step for [a] man...one giant leap for mankind." Without that "a" in there, "man" and "mankind" mean the same thing. Supposedly he actually says it but something with the transmissions (either beeps or crackles or something) and you can't hear it and forever more you get the incorrect quote. So I've heard.
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I have collected old newspapers and magazines since I was a kid. Actually my Mother was a History teacher, and she got me started.
I have:
1915 Santa Cruz Paper- Pershing going after Pancho Villa.
1932 LA Herald - LA Olympic Coverage including an interview with Babe Didrickson in which she predicts her Golds.
1945 - VE day
1945 - VJ day
1955 - Dedication of MacAurthur Park (I don't know why Mom kept this one really. There is a little scuffle in here between China and Taiwan. Maybe she thought something big was gonna happen.)
1963 - Many papers from November 23 & 24.
1969 - Newspapers and a Time magazine covering the Moon landing.
1974 - Nixons resignation
1984 - LA Olympics again
1986 - Challenger
1998 - Clinton's Impeachment
2001 - 9/11
2003 - Columbia
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Originally posted by Rockstar
Spin Control: Pravda of Moscow, the Soviet Union, manages to keep the moonwalk story at the bottom of the page while the top headline says, "Collectivism is the Feature of the New World People," whatever that means.
Nice. Bloody communists, indeed. :D
I still can't understand how this phrase will sound in Russian. BTW, there was no such thing as a "top headline" in Soviet-times Pravda. If the story was printed on the front page, even at the bottom - it was the greatest possible respect. You have to understand that Pravda was a newspaper of the Central Commitee of the Communist Party. It was supposed to print Party news, nothing else.
Looks like another "antisoviet" propaganda fantasy. Can't tell for sure, but it can be interesting to look at that issue in a library.
Originally posted by Rockstar
An Evil Empire?: China, practices flagrant censorship. Renmin Ribao of Beijing – along with virtually all other newspapers in communist China – fails to mention on its front page the first landing of humans on the moon. The government of the world’s most populous country does not want it to know about the moonwalk -- an event that 500 million people are watching live on TV.
Have you ever heard about time zones? Zhemin' Zhibao probably covered this event in next issue.
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Looks like another "antisoviet" propaganda fantasy. Can't tell for sure, but it can be interesting to look at that issue in a library.
You know Borada when I saw that headline I almost didn't post it because it looked exactly as how you saw it, anti-communist. But then I thought hey wait a minute I'm anti-Communist so what the hay! ;)