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Originally posted by ARTelevision
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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Agreed one of the paradoxical elements of the catalog of all books and including the catalog itself within the catalog.
While I do not give it much more creditibility in historical factoid or information because in order to squeeze in the right facts etc into the 44 minute hour is truly not comprehensive enough.
It's not much more different than pick any of Vh1's 100 greatest etc.
What I did find interesting is that they bothered to put it together. If you had seen it, your statements of the Queer demo, is a bit spot on. There was much rhetoric going on about Mary Tyler Moor, That Girl, and the reset of the up and coming from the liberal movement of the time. I recall watching it growing up and thinking that well, my mom is a working professional, and these people aren't much different from my mom or any of my friend's moms except they are white.
I thought it totally normal, and in fact, some of my own can do attitude was formed and pushed together by viewing women in leading roles and succeeding.