Underground newspapers suffered distribution losses because of the bombings

Evidence

As the bombings cost Rat its distributor, EVO made space for Spero’s thoughts. Perhaps, he opines, the bomber’s inspiration came from the great Northeast power blackout—it was the work of a visionary terrorist but certainly not his comrade employee Jane Alpert. “It’s hard to imagine Janie working as she did at Rat and in women’s lib and still finding time to plot bombings,” Spero writes, “She seemed no more freaked out than the rest of us become living on the Lower East Side and trying to redeem a concrete jungle.” — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 1491

Categorization

• XREF: Directly relevant to the reader’s shelf: the bombings cost Rat its distributor, an example of illegality undermining the scene’s market infrastructure.