“They were responding to the culture around them.”
No, they were influencing the culture around them. And kindly don’t tell me TV had no effect on people when trillions have been spent on TV advertising over the decades.
No question, that TV changed society, and not for the better.
And now we’ve seen the disruption that Social Media has brought about.
I just wonder how you could have stopped it.
It goes both ways. But TV was generally way behind the general culture till the 70s.