Good morning, Detroit! Radio used to bind us. Now we're all in our own worlds

"....in the early 1970s, I might look over and see someone in the next car laughing at the same joke I was. Radio worked that way half a century ago. Culture was a shared thing... . Americans coming of age.. ..have no idea. They – we – are different creatures. For better or worse, we have less social glue... ..I talked to George Baier, an east side native who worked in morning radio from 1977 until 1998, doing voices on JJ & the Morning Crew. He compares the proliferation of podcasts to microbreweries..."