and the RATS, take another one in the.........HA ha!!!
Posted on 05/30/2011 8:22:04 AM PDT by UltraConservative
Ben Shapiro's new book, "Primetime Propaganda: The True Hollywood Story Of How The Left Took Over Your TV" is going viral all over the world, thanks to yesterday's article in The Independent. Today, coverage extends to the UK Daily Mail, the New Zealand Herald, the Sydney Morning Herald, the Ottawa Citizen, the Ireland Journal, Australia's Herald Sun, and yes, Newser, among others.
Newser says, "The writer interviewed dozens of leading industry figures, some of whom 'admitted' to presenting a left-wing bias in programing, Shapiro writes, as they seek to 'shape America in their own leftist image.' Not very successfully, apparently."
Shapiro has responded on his website: "For those in the media: this is just the beginning. We've got tape." He just tweeted this: "NOTE TO THOSE IN THE MEDIA: Many of you seem skeptical that TV has a leftist slant. Warning: #WeHaveTheTape ... Beginning tomorrow: There Will Be Tape."
Thanks for posting. Will be a good summer read!
When every show has homosexuals as main characters, you can pretty much figure the left has taken over. Hope they didn’t spend a whole lot of time trying to figure this out.
Without having read Ben Shapiro’s new book, I can’t do more than state that conservatives have known for a long time that ‘Hollywood’ is almost completely leftist and has steadily infused it’s ‘product’ with left-wing propaganda. Recently, TV shows with gay characters presented as either victims and/or heroes. Coy appeals for legalizing same-sex ‘marriage’ is presented as a desirable, benign goal that all decent, upstanding, fair and compassionate people should embrace. It’s nauseating. I’m glad there is an exposé of this and perhaps, a few more eyes will be opened to the pernicious effect ‘Hollywood’ continues to have on our culture. Kudos to Ben Shapiro.
Ditto to that. Furthermore, can you remember that last time you saw a movie that didn't have the obligatory gay character?
“How The Left Took Over Your TV”
Sadly Americans did nothing. In tandem with TV propaganda was public education. Which came first? Of course it was your neighborhood public school, university and academia, where we also ignored the obvious, preferring to sleep through a larger than life take-over which is in full swing even today.
“How Americans Continue to Sleep Through the Education Take-Over” is apt.
Sounds like an interesting book. It’s always rather fascinating looking at older tv programming, from the 50s/60s/70s/80s, etc., and note the initial progressions of very subtle lib propaganda gradually grow into full-blown preachy leftism. Which undoubtedly has led to today, where tv has become so self-conscious and gay as to be unwatchable.
And don’t forget stupid white people commercials.
I don’t think of the left, as much as it is the gays that have taken over. Once one got into a position of power, they hired on their buddies and they spread like a virus, until now, they completely control TV, Movies and Music. And the radical gay agenda is considered a key plank of the Left.
I don’t watch a lot of movies or TV shows. My daughter watches Grey’s Anatomy so I see it on occasion and they have all sorts of weird characters. I refuse to watch trash that has a lot of profanity, sex for the sake of sex, blood and guts, and homosexuals. That narrows down my choices - lol.
Depends on which American.
I never boughtt a TV until 1990 while my wife was pregnant with our first. I got rid of the damned thing in March of 1995.
Those are one of my biggest pet peeves. It’s pervasive all the way down to buying a bottle of Aleve.
“I never boughtt a TV until 1990 while my wife was pregnant with our first. I got rid of the damned thing in March of 1995. “=====
Good for you. I like that. My comment was directed, however, to the point that TV propaganda is nothing but a product of US Education. Home schoolers are an example of what you did with your TV. Just opt out. That’s one solution that speaks volumes.
Amazon has an excerpt, which lists several older programs and what they actually were saying. I have to say, none of them surprised me. Who could watch MASH and come away believing it was about anything other than pacifism? Supposedly set in Korea, it was Vietnam propaganda from start to finish. Others were equally obvious. The American people could actually figure this out without someone writing a book about it, but I guess they’re too lazy to actually think.
y’now...think it’s time to trash the TV watching...be better
to read a book, and then download a separate video/animation
and not have to pay for a television package (so they can inject all other
stuff you know ain’t really true).
When their revenue stream dies, their message will die in
the dust.
I saw the MASH episode where they have a nork guerilla in the unit for treatment. Hawkeye and co. were all over Mako’s character for wanting to take her back for interrogation and possible execution. At the end, even when she admitted to trying to kill an American soldier in the hospital and how she despised and wanted to kill Hawk and co, they still got pissed at Mako’s char and had to be halted by his guards cocking their rifles.. I was amazed at how stupid they looked supporting this woman commie like that.
I saw a few other episodes that bad, or nearly so. It was a wildly popular show in its day, but it was pure propaganda. And still is. If you look at your channel guides, it’s being re-run on several networks on weekends and at night. But most of the shows are that way, in one format or another.
And of course the newscasts are equally vile in that regard.
That’s the kind of idiocy you really start encountering in the early-70s. The other day I was watching a similarly-vintage episode of “Cannon” (which is a series generally devoid of propagandizing, actually). The episode involved a scientist who steals a cannister of nerve-gas from his company, in protest of the Army’s purchasing of said product. To make a moral statement to the world, he places the cannister at a carousel in a carnival, set to be released and kill perhaps a thousand people.
The scientist is obviously presented as a bit unhinged, but also rather sympathetically. Even at the end, as he’s in custody, he’s treated more as an unfortunate guy who had a ‘breakdown,’ but meant well. Anyway, had this same story been told in a tv-show five or ten years earlier, the protagonists would have treated this character, who attempted a huge mass-murder of innocent carnival-patrons, with total disgust.
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