Here's a chilling thought...

[Montauk6]

Imagine what might have occurred or where we would be today had there been no "Rise of Progressive Talk Radio." No Air America, no Jones Radio, etc.

Egads, the hairs on my arms are standing as a cold snap just went through my spine. (brrrr)

[DanCa]

1. *shudders* and to top it off no cspan and no jon stewart

Scary Montauk6 really scary.

[SheepyMcSheepster]

2. yeah

that kind of puts the "al frankin best of shows suck" complaints in perspective doesn't it?

[eleny]

3. I guess it was like that back in the 60s & 70s

I was in college and don't recall any strong left political radio. We still got the word out for civil rights and anti war activities. Where there's a will there's a way. No matter what happens, it will only embolden us all the more. Without the internet, we were motivated to gather together back then in person. Teach-ins and demonstrations. To get to D.C., we hitched or got a bus ticket. It would happen again.

[marylanddem]

4. pacifica radio in 1968

living in San Francisco in 1968-69 there was a Pacifica radio station. I recall they did interviews by and about rock & roll stars, but don't recall if there was out and out political activism via the airwaves. There were also underground newspapers like the Berkeley Barb & psychedelic San Francisco Oracle.

[Montauk6]

5. But it also could be argued that the MSM was less whored-up

There were no "embedded" journalists in Saigon. They also didn't shy away from images that revealed that all was not well in the Land of the Free.

[eleny]

6. I agree

But I rarely watched the news. I got my motivation at school. The mimeogrpah machines were rolling non stop. There was a draft back then, too. More than anything, the draft was the thing that got people going. And women needed to work and make real money. So women were motivated by the need to put food on their children. ;)