place in the city information network. He was providing up to the second, unfiltered news that citizens wary of mainstream press coverage could trust. As Jay Sand points out in the Radio Waves Unnameable ob Fass did not just report the news, he helped mold the events of the time.
The next month, when Columbia students occupied school buildings to protest the University stance on the war and a plan to evict Harlem residents in order to build a gymnasium, WBAI, with Fass show in the lead, cted as a nerve center for the demonstrators. After the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy (both in 1968), Fass provided in depth, ongoing alternative coverage, giving listeners and independent investigators a chance to grieve, discuss theories, express opinions and trade information considered too controversial for the major media to touch.
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