It was very hard to get any records, so the only source for us to really hear what was happening was listening to the Voice of America. We would be taping all the broadcast and then sharing the tapes and talking about it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We'd been noticing how much more important the internet had become - once information is out there in the world now, anyone can get it. Since that was beginning to happen with the record anyway, we figured, OK, let's just stream it for free ourselves.
Well that's true, and what is actually happening now is that there are accusations that those records contain conspiratorial information that has been concealed from the American people and that is a dangerous situation that just cannot be tolerated.
Little did we know it would be watched by millions of people and break viewing records.
And we broadcast tapes sent to us from Americans against the war. These were most effective I believe.
I used to think that all great recordings happened at about 3 A.M.
Then I loved the fact that we were actually recording live.
Some people are probably scratching their heads and saying, How did that happen? That's because some of the media didn't give the public the full story.
We never heard of tape. Everything was live, live, live.
The only thing I'd ever done with news was to read copy sitting at the microphone in the studio.
Nothing could be recorded in those days except by aiming a movie camera at the television screen. It was at least another 10 years before they had any kind of recording medium.