And when there was a revolutionary movement...(though calling the NYRB of that era, liberal, rather than radical, let alone Ramparts, "liberal, " when by 1966 it had changed from a Catholic liberal magazine like Commonweal to New Leftism, is a typical example of the MSM pretending that liberal and conservative exhaust the range of political opinion...) Having recently reviewed microfilm of Ramparts from 1972 till their demise, I saw much debate on McGovern's candidacy...along w/stupid, long letters supporting the Symbionese Liberation Army.
http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/media/columns/medialife/n_9188/ In 1970, George Mcgovern, the way-long-shot antiwar candidate, began to experiment with the novel political fund-raising technique of direct mail to finance his unlikely primary race.
This political marketing strategy, according to an article that appeared in New York in September 1972, was the brainchild of Morris Dees, who would become among the most prominent southern liberal activists but who was then the head of a publishing company that sold special-interest books through the mail.
Almost all of the mail sent by the McGovern team went to three groups. You got a solicitation if you subscribed to liberal magazines: The New Republic, The New York Review of Books, Ramparts, or Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, for instance.
-- Michael Pugliese