People talk about news only coming from a tiny number of corporate-controlled sources now, but back then, there was a unified point of view (what conservatives like to call trhe "liberal media"), a NYC perspective, that worked for effective news reporting, but which didn't show us all points of view around the country, on a lot of different issues. That's why, understandably, conservatives seized their share of the media, when more media became available with cable, etc.. Well, at least things like paranoia over witchcraft in real life is out in the open now. I wonder if it really is worse now, or if it's just covered more.