This isn't Reagan and Carson, though. This is the times. Watching LET THE FIRE BURN, the documentary about the 1970s MOVE bombing, I was struck by how everyone in the ensuing hearings spoke then. Matter-of-fact. No histrionics. No bombast. Politicos, witnesses, journos, everyone.https://twitter.com/baseballcrank/status/998942260967432192 …
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television wasn't dominant yet. Grandstanding is a lot less effective against serious, intelligent people you're negotiating with than it is at rallying the mob.
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may also be downstream effects of colleges getting (further) corrupted in the 60s; generations wouldn't have gone through those until 90s
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A relatively cohesive and decent elite which effectively dominated the postwar mass media (TV broadcasters and a few national newspapers) helped. Then the boomer long marchers hit their elite prime in the 90s and a decade or two later technology re-democratized media . . .
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