There was talk of ‘media filters’ and ‘radical professors,’ 25 years ago

In the fall of 1992, the La Crosse County Republican Party had a meeting shortly after the election in which President George Bush had been defeated by Democrat Bill Clinton.  Speaker Steve Knudson promoted a television channel called ‘National Empowerment TV,’ which was being organized to ‘bypass’ perceived liberal bias in the national media.  A video viewers of the channel could get ‘unvarnished truth’ that would not be ‘filtered’ through the regular media, and it could help college students cope with ‘radical professors.’  There was talk among the local Republicans of replacing some of the ‘deadwood’ on the La Crosse city council in the 1993 election, when 9 seats would be on the ballot.  
 
The La Crosse Center had been open for only 12 years, but it was considering expansion plans.  There were proposals of building a larger arena, possibly by 1997 or 2007, along with more space for conventions and meetings.  Board members talked of expanding the center to the south or the east, but definitely not west into Riverside Park…which is an option being reviewed by the La Crosse Center now.
 
TV watchers in ’92 were checking out new fall shows such as ‘The Ben Stiller Show’…’Mad About You’…’Bob,’ with Bob Newhart playing a cartoonist…and ‘The Golden Palace,’ which was ‘The Golden Girls’ minus Bea Arthur.  Twenty-five years ago, 1992, yesterday in La Crosse.