watched by a high enough percentage of the population that it created a shared experience

We all knew it was true even if we didn’t all agree on how we should interpret the implications of what Cronkite told us happened

family shared its media experience, probably because we had only one TV set, one newspaper subscription and no Internet

dinner together every night in a room with no TV, a household telephone that almost never rang during dinner hour and no mobile devices that let us exchange text messages with people outside the room

value in looking at what we might be missing as we move forward, not to repeat the past but to ensure a better future

we have to figure it out for ourselves

pressure on us to think critically about what we see, hear, read and say

an opportunity – and responsibility – for parents and schools to teach critical thinking

learn to “consider the source” of what they take in but also think critically about what they post

asking questions such as “Is this true?” and “How do I know it’s true?.”

think carefully before they broadcast their own versions of “the way it is.”