What is the burden of liveness

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Torres, Sasha. "'In a Crisis We Must Have a Sense of Drama': Civil Rights and Televisual Information" in Black, White, and In Color: Television and Black Civil Rights

• What is the "burden of liveness"? How could it be re-purposed as a means of promoting the Civil Rights cause? What televisual strategies did MLK, Jr. and Andrew Young develop to capture national attention and initiate a national conversation about civil rights?

• Why were the TV networks compelled to form a symbiotic alliance with Civil Rights leaders? What did each side of this alliance stand to gain? What role did southern TV affiliates inadvertently play in fostering this alliance?

• How can television "render racism visible"? What about television makes it a better medium for this than film?

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