Visuals and news events of 80s and 90s

The media has really changed throughout time from the 1980s-1990s and now. The way newspapers were made and what type of information they all held.

Sorry, Clayton, but ever since we downsized, I don't have any people to get in touch with your people.

1980s The Reagan Revolution ... the Fed tames inflation and tax cuts fuel an economic boom ... leveraged buyouts and hostile takeovers ... Star Wars: a movie phenomenon and a defense system ... small business created 20 million new jobs, especially for women ... Iran Contra Affair ... Black Monday hits Wall Street but the economy hardly notices ... the Berlin Wall comes down ... money market funds are the place to put savings ... new technology—personal computers, faxes, and cell phones—on the rise.

AIDS/ HIV in the 80s
Many people started thinking that AIDS all started because of the homosexuals. It was all over then news how more and more people were being diagnosed with AIDS/ HIV and many people were ignorant about the situation.
“…as the ‘80s started going along, after ’82, say ’83, ’84, more and more people were getting sick. Fear was gripping the city and the nation. Gay people stopped going out. Nobody knew how it was transmitted and people were afraid… These were people my age. It was frightening”.Peter Groubert, living in San Francisco.

http://www.library.hbs.edu/hc/wsj/decade80.html

This is one of the 1980s magazines and how they looked, which shows the type of news they published.

The market has been erratic this week.

1990s The Internet marketplace is the new frontier ... Generation X hits the workplace and dress-down Fridays become the norm ... Alan Greenspan sneezes and markets tremble ... venture capital fuels entrepreneurial spirit ... the Cold War ends with Soviet collapse ... the Dow hits 10,000 and keeps climbing ... dot-com changes the economy and our vocabulary ... 43% of Americans invest in stocks ... a president is impeached, but life goes on ... Y2K anxiety runs rampant.



http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/22/newsid_4245000/4245877.stm

1997: Dolly the sheep is cloned

Scientists in Scotland have announced the birth of the world's first successfully cloned mammal, Dolly the sheep.

Dolly was stuffed and placed in the National Museum of Scottland.

The United States had 1,611 general-circulation daily newspapers in 1990 -- 14 percent fewer than it had in 1940, before the arrival of television.Of the top 25 daily newspapers in 1990 - the year newspaper employment peaked and the last year before circulation declines really began to trend downward - 20 have declined, and one was shut down.The 1990s ; first post-Soviet decade: delusions about end of history and triumph of ‘market economy’; increasingly commercialised media; rapid spread of Web in global North; 1997 financial crash in Asia; anti-globalisation movement; growth of politicised Islam; uneven democratisation in Eurasia and SE Asia.


One of the major events that occured in the 90s was the Columbine High School shooting on April 20, 1999. Two teenagers went into their school killing students and injuring others, then in the end the two committed suicide.
http://abcnews.go.com/Archives/video/april-20-1999-columbine-shooting-9541833