Title: Maybe you had to have been there
Product review: Although "White Noise" still has some resonance in today's America, it remains a dead-on commentary about America in the 1980s. With remarkable prescience, DeLillo instantly grasped the weird changes that took place between 1979 and 1983, when cable TV opened up offbeat channels, when Elvis became a cult, when rumor supplanted fact and the written word surrendered in the face of an overwhelming onslaught from the oral culture. Given that all these trends have only worsened since, it's entirely possible that "White Noise," like "Dr. Strangelove" and other cutting satires, cannot be appreciated fully by those who weren't there at the time.
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