Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Johannes Pilch who wrote (54167)	6/24/1999 2:45:00 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

Unless we are cut off entirely, it is amazing the amount of stuff we absorb. Norman Podhoretz has written about going into the Army, and discovering that there was this whole world of popular culture, at that time mainly from radio and film, since tv was new, that he shared with the guys in his barracks. He was a Jewish kid from Brooklyn, with a literary bent and a degree from Columbia, and many of them were off the farm from the Midwest or South, and yet they all listened to Fred Allen and watched the Marx Brothers. He came to appreciate the role of the mass media in forming a common frame of reference...