Yep, pretty much a vast wasteland from a liberal point of view. Shows like: My Three Sons, Ozzie and Harriet, Make Room for Daddy, Lucy, Andy Griffith, Dick Van Dyke Show, Bonanza, Gunsmoke, Dragnet, Father Knows Best, Lassie. Spewing all those family and American values all across the land. Nothing like the Progressive and cutting edge educational stuff that we have today. Can you imagine, no PBS, no MTV, no MSNBC. Barbaric.
That’s because the Kennedy Administration’s Federal Communications Commission Chairman Newton Minow had decried television as a “vast wasteland” in a 1961 speech.
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He wouldn’t have had a chance in hell of getting elected without it — and Kennedy was the first to acknowledge that.
The MSM’s division of Proletainment (’Hollywood’) is often the lefty’ worst enemy. I remember seeing a piece of agit-prop, a movie called ‘Pleasantville’ that purported to show how vapid the ‘50s were to the world offered (presumably) by the Democrats.
The movie actually changed, Wizard of Oz-like, from black-and-white to color as the characters discovered the joys of liberality.
This was one of the things that helped me become a right-thinker, keeping in mind that we were neck-deep in Boy Clinton I believe at that time.
So now we’re enjoying the fruits of that personal ‘liberty’: no borders, a putrid kultursmog (Tyrell), no budget and an exponentially expanding debt/unemployment rate, a perpetually aggrieved ‘underclass’ supported by a maligned productive class cognizant of something called a “knockout game” (yes, the same MSM actually calling it a game) and the perpetrators are always simply disaffected youths. Enough rant.
Yeah, these are the wonder years all right. Good job Democrats.
Ah you forgot, Have Gun will Travel, Wanted Dead or Alive with Steve Queen and the Jackie Gleason show from Miami.