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LiberalFighter

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18. 1974 is so much different from 2017

Thu May 18, 2017, 08:16 PM

May 2017

Based on the below and other comparisons I don't think it should take as long.

Social Media
1974 -- Face to Face
2017 -- Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, etc

Resources
1974 -- Pen and Paper
2017 -- Computer and Internet

Electronic Media
1974 -- basic Radio and basic TV
2017 -- basic Radio, Sirrius, internet radio, basic TV, 24/7 news tv, web blogs, web boards, Facebook, Twitter.

Paper Media
1974 -- newspaper stands, libraries, delivery
2017 -- newspaper stands, libraries, delivery, internet

FBI or Special Prosecutor
1974 -- non-internet age and very slow computers
2017 -- opposite of above

Access to sources across the world
1974 -- slow and limited
2017 -- not as much as 1974

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Can you all smell it? [View all] kpete May 2017 OP

Off to the Greatest with you Hekate May 2017 #1

Note the date. Bleacher Creature May 2017 #2

That's because he's the FASTEST corrupt President in history! Everyone says so!! nt Honeycombe8 May 2017 #9

And the mostest, bigliest, worstest, famoustest lunatica May 2017 #40

+1. NT Honeycombe8 May 2017 #45

Nixon resigned a year after this story DesertRat May 2017 #3

1974 is so much different from 2017 LiberalFighter May 2017 #18

Very few people owned computers in 1974. StevieM May 2017 #28

In 1979 the first Apple store opened in the city I lived in RandomAccess May 2017 #42

Welcome to DU, RandomAccess!! My family got our first computer in 1981, I believe. StevieM May 2017 #43

I STILL love that sound RandomAccess May 2017 #44

Add to this TIA and a dozen more spy agencies, tracking all web traffic, DNS logs, ....... L. Coyote May 2017 #31

The other difference is that in 1973-74 DesertRat May 2017 #32

This BigOleDummy May 2017 #33

More importantly, we had a Democratic majority in both houses... Nitram May 2017 #34

That's the MOST important thing imho. progressoid May 2017 #36

5 years for Nixon to "get there" then gone 1 year later bigbrother05 May 2017 #39

I think few things are clear: MyNameIsKhan May 2017 #4

Yup. All, and more. WinkyDink May 2017 #17

Great find! eleny May 2017 #5

Flop sweat? Oh yes. n/t sarge43 May 2017 #6

I thought that term sounded kind of familiar... The Velveteen Ocelot May 2017 #7

Bazinga! Is this a real headline? nt Honeycombe8 May 2017 #8

the worst thing bora13 May 2017 #10

WHERE'S THE WITCH?!?!? alittlelark May 2017 #11

If its actually a witch....or someone who is doing almost as much damage as a witch could.. LiberalLovinLug May 2017 #41

Oh My! malaise May 2017 #12

Better for the world, life, humans....but now worried about my 401k. And, it's Laura PourMeADrink May 2017 #13

Yep.... I want to retire in a couple of more years also.... I'm in the same boat groundloop May 2017 #24

Poor republicans.... dubyadiprecession May 2017 #14

I think he is 100x worse than Nixon, but his hard core Alice11111 May 2017 #16

Now there's a brick from down Memory Lane! calimary May 2017 #15

This just seems so eerily reminiscent of Nixon's scandal.... very much deja vu groundloop May 2017 #26

Funny. Re: your last paragraph I had an acquaintance say the exact same thing ... KPN May 2017 #37

speech, speech bora13 May 2017 #19

YES. It is goose Mira May 2017 #20

I love the stench of profusely sweating Republicans in the afternoon... VOX May 2017 #21

Excellent! kentuck May 2017 #22

sureeeeee 45 dawn5651 May 2017 #23

Ironically, those two would have LED witch hunts back in the day. nolabear May 2017 #25

There are parallels to Watergate bucolic_frolic May 2017 #27

Lived this....very reminiscent.... Heartstrings May 2017 #29

Smoked ass with a nice dark char & a side of cooked bacon. flying_wahini May 2017 #30

Knowing the truth, being set free, 1974 and 2017 Blue Ridge Virginia May 2017 #35

Is anyone else into deja vu? raven mad May 2017 #38