Remembering the News: What the Picture Adds to Recall

,The tendency to the dramatic and the paradigmatic and the disconnected is almost equally characteristic of all of the news media, and is aggravated by the competition among them, as if all of them had the same job to do. If television has the most difficulty coping in this respect, it also has new opportunities: to make the news (even yesterday's news) more "tangible" through pictures, and thus to serve us all, but not least those groups which lack ready access to the other