“Is she related to the Paley that used to run CBS?”
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Highly likely. Her coastal elitist attitude is in the genes.
CBS had a stable of highly successful “rural comedies” in the late sixties. For no known reason at the time, Paley pulled the plug on all of them.
It turns out, Mrs. Paley didn’t like them; intimations that the down home humor from her husband’s network was embarrassing for her among her unaccomplished, neurotic idle, rich Manhattan friends.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rural_purge
The purge was instigated by CBS executive Fred Silverman,[citation needed] following research highlighting the greater attraction to advertisers of the younger urban viewer demographic.[1] Their lack of relevance was referred to in Gil Scott-Heron’s 1970 spoken-word piece The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, which alludes to at least seven of the shows that are eventually canceled as part of the purge, mentioning that as part of the titular revolution, the shows “will no longer be so damned relevant.”