Imagine how easy it would be to forget the impact of the riots in Birmingham, the water hoses, the children in jail, if the media was not there documenting every minute, engraining it in our minds. The media, for better or for worse, is not like our memory. We have the complex and often wonderful act of forgetting, erasing the memories we don’t want to remember. By contrast the media, our fly trap, is often a very audible echo from the past, calling out to us lest we allow history to repeat itself.
