[tomkat]

That was interesting, and the effort to present it is appreciated .. thank you.

But they brought ruin to themselves -- not just through partisan politics -- but through failure to produce programs of enduring value.

That's it in a nutshell, and I would add that it speaks to most all of the medium of television.

While not every show can, or needs to be, an 'epic' or a morality play, any aspiring 'message' will only be as effective as the willingness/ability of the audience to hear it.
And in our slow national 'slouch toward Gomorrah' over the past few decades, that receptivity seems to have become increasingly fuzzy year by year.

[poconopundit]

Glad you got something out of it.

It may be that it’s hard to get a critical mass of viewers to watch these shows and therefore pay for their production.

But “Little House on the Prairie” was a morality play that echoed our American heritage and was a big hit. In fact, that show was very popular in Japan as well.

Anything is possible in our internet age and the fact that the Deplorables are more organized than ever.