Yutzy took back the microphone. “This last report at eight fifteen a.m. Alaska time, Sunday morning,” he specified. “It seems apparent from our experience, even in these few short hours, that a portable transistor radio would be quite helpful in a disaster setting such as this, where many other means of communication are out.” If the sociologists wanted to truly understand the experience of people in Anchorage, and to feel their way into the fabric of this emergency, they needed to be listening to the radio, like everyone else. “I believe we should give some thought to this at headquarters,”
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