It's hard to overstate the change that social media made in allowing celebs (and anyone else) to basically become overnight political activists. But it still got out there via magazine articles and TV interviews and musicians making remarks in between songs at a concert and so on. It wasn't quite as omnipresent but it was still out there.Was the media just as shit though? granted I was around 10-11 when jr. got in but I don't remember Hollywood and the entire entertainment sphere having such a fucking meltdown.