The Watergate hearings were on T.V. in the afternoon

[Atman]

6. Look at your hours...

I watched the Watergate hearings, but I was a kid. A very involved, political son of activist parents. But who really can watch this stuff at 10:00 am or 3:00pm? People sitting in the waiting room of the doctors office or Jiffy Lube.

TV was a lot more "special" during the Nixon years. By that, I don't mean it was better, it's just that there were only a few channels, and during the daytime most were taken up by old-school soap operas. Today, people have a million choices of what to watch. Anybody who is interested can watch the hearings live. While I fondly recall the days of sitting in a burger joint or a Friendly's with the tv blaring Nixon hearings, that's another era. If you're at a Friendly's now, you can watch the hearings on your iPhone. Time doesn't mean anything.