Yes.
First - the entire methodology of transforming historic news into entertainment is suspect. A problem with that is it gradually replaces anything like an objective understanding of history and news with a distorted one, because of the homogenized and, in many ways, deceptive manner in which issues are represented.
Second, the drift from broadcasting to massive demographics to narrowcasting to minority demographics is embedded in the sequence of shows used as examples of something here.
As an interesting note: I'm aware of a sizeable audience of 10-year olds for "Queer Eye..." I have occasion to observe how bringing a group of individials who represent a scant percentage of the population into mainstream entertainment creates the impression that these individuals are somehow normative - thereby increasing the false perception that their numbers among the general population are far more in abundance than they actually are. It's the spotlight effect as applied to groups.
In general - the salient fact here is that the entertainment media increasingly promote their "progressive" agenda. A history of the evolution of mass media must reflect the fact that what is happening is the increased politicalization of entertainment and, by extension, all media.
The media is a lens. Lenses have an unavoidable characteristic of distorting the data they present.
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