And there are the stations screaming about what is wrong with this or that nation or politician or group, and how we all need to send in our dollars to help them continue to scream. I'll be first in line to agree they have a right to do what they do, just as I have a right to listen or turn them off. Pull this world together for me again in long and serialized examples full of the sounds and the voices of the people busy making this complex planet work and who in their singularity, respect, quiet innovation and distinctiveness might hold the true keys to our long-term survival as a species. No TV, with its intrusive pictures and breathlessness. If there are others in the room, they'll be talking to each other.
Radio still does it best.
That's why there'll be always some radio receiver close for me, informing, teaching, relaxing and enriching my life until, like my father, until the day I die. Copyright 1999 by Vern Modeland. All rights reserved. As one who was young then, my recollection is of the propaganda of our politicians and the media. They showed us rejoicing together at the fall of Nazism and arrival of allied troops in a devastated Berlin.