Reply #25: I know I myself didn't spend a lot of time watching TV during those hearings... [View All]

Back then if the hearings weren't on, we'd be watching things like Star Trek or Mission Impossible reruns in the afternoon or something like that. We were pushed away from that activity to do other things when the hearings pushed those aside. I watched a little of it at times, though I have to admit, that was too early in my life for me to get very interested in it and watch it for lengths of time. Nevertheless, I had some exposure to it, and the fact that it displaced what I might have wanted to watch then had me realize that it was important crap that was going down and to ask about it and look up info on it. Today, people can still get their "fixes" of distractions without getting interrupted like we did then.

I don't worry about the choir today. I think they are far more stronger today with the internet and many other sources of info that we didn't have then. I worry more about those in the middle that still haven't found the time out of their busy schedule of work and other meaningless distractions to absorb that some very significant and nasty events are happening now. It's hard now to build a mass movement of concern without media making it a priority for us to know about it.