There was a time when American popular culture was one of real intellectual and cultural striving.
Tag: television
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‘Schoolhouse Rock!’: When American Children’s Television Was Still Sane
The series created by advertising executive David McCall to help his son memorize multiplication tables taught a generation of children much more than math.
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Death of the MTV Generation
A critique and a lamentation for the demise of a channel that defined a generation.
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Visual Muzak and Digital Slop
The entertainment industry has changed to cater to our increasingly fragmented attention spans.
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The Decline of ‘Suits’ and the End of the Non-Woke Bingeable Television
The trajectory of the once delightful USA Network series makes it a perfect test case for examining what woke did to entertainment.
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Our Media’s Utopian Alternative Reality
Advertisers and entertainers seem less interested in selling their products than in converting us to a utopian vision of a world without prejudice.
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‘The New Norm Show’ and Why Anti-Woke Comedy Isn’t Funny
There is an appetite for content that is anti-woke or at least not woke (the term itself is awful and overused), but this is not it.
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‘The View’ or ‘The Coven’?
A roundup of the woke oddities and mediocrities populating television’s most popular daytime talk show.
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Archie Bunker Back Stories
Carl Reiner’s son, Rob, takes part in a grand tradition on the left of demonizing normal, religious people after being advanced, personally, by powerful relationships. On the left, it’s all relative and “all in the family.”