A History of Radio and Content – Part IV: The 1980s
16.06.11
It’s easier to talk analytically and critically about a in the good old days b simultaneously you didn’t live through. Just as it’s easier for me to know exact dates of neonate-boomer milestones more than the baby boomers themselves, it’s hard to talk about the history of tranny in the 1980s because I lived through it. Certainly my grandmother isn’t going to see her reflection in RCA’s buyout of Winner when she first heard the radio as a 7 year old in 1928.
Or it’s too heavy to think about, like why it’s so laborious to answer the simple question, “what do your mother die of?” I think my sister is docile to say “cancer,” but at the time it was such a mess of misdiagnosis, starting from when she was 7 years old and she had a convulsion and unmistakable to her kidney and the doctor put her on Xanax and told her to stop eating chocolate. Nine years later, when she fallen her kidney, another doctor said, “we could’ve saved it had we caught it when you were 7.”
Source: Radio Survivor