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Warpy

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1. The 60s were "covered" by a bunch of old white guys from the burbs.
Mon Jul 7, 2014, 03:12 AM
Jul 2014

They managed to get everything exactly wrong about what was happening during some very intense years and what had caused it to happen. I can't believe they sent out such incredibly clueless reporters who just made things up rather than talking to the more articulate counter cultural types---and a lot of us were very well read and quite articulate.

I imagine the coverage of ensuing decades is about the same. Well, except the 70s, those years were so abysmal that nobody seems particularly interested in doing a similar show combined with media hype.

I saw part of the 80s show and realized they were all still pussyfooting around that folksy old fraud Reagan instead of listing all the evils that man was responsible for.

Maybe one of these days they'll do a more honest analysis, getting rid of all the Reagan fluffers.

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Ryan White [View all] question everything Jul 2014 OP
The 60s were "covered" by a bunch of old white guys from the burbs. Warpy Jul 2014 #1
can you talk more about the 70s? Iris Jul 2014 #2
Not much of a culture to remember question everything Jul 2014 #4
The 70's??? DONNA SUMMER! joeybee12 Jul 2014 #5
The 60s burst out in an explosion of color and experimentation Warpy Jul 2014 #7
This makes perfect sense Iris Jul 2014 #8
K&R for the memory of Ryan White Bluenorthwest Jul 2014 #3
Ignorance breeds hate lpbk2713 Jul 2014 #6
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