[ Courtesy: Lowell Thelin - ]
"Crime" noted to be WOR station theme for past 24 hours
Discussion of rising "pseudomorality"
Effect of the recent Vietnam War peace agreement on the peace sign industry and peace groups
Forces of "good and evil" in classical Westerns - replacement by pragmatic killing for fun
Experiences with NYC apartment robberies, and reluctance to report crime for fear of increased insurance rates - effect on crime statistics
Crime in past seen as "just the way life was"
Three outside phone calls taken - crime discussions with working policemen
"There is not one of us not capable of murder" JS
Comments
• Shep rebukes engineers for inattentiveness to show. Also, Shep insists he is a "working monologist," and "not a phone type" in reference to phone broadcast hookup engineeers are working on.