>> This bit is particularly disingenuous... Yes and no. His statement is correct in a historical perspective that Walter Cronkite and the local newspaper had

>> This bit is particularly disingenuous... Yes and no. His statement is correct in a historical perspective that Walter Cronkite and the local newspaper had little interest in covering these movements (or at least not in a sympathetic or fair light). His statement is humorous, as you point out, when used as a leg of his argument that bookstores are still needed for these social reasons.