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Joseph Stein’s comic circle and the transformation of American popular culture
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Even as these smart, deftly realized shows did
their considerable bit in changing the American conversation about the
kind of people we were and ought to be, they exercised enormous
influence over later creators of mass entertainment. It’s hardly
happenstance that in a country evenly split between left and right, in
entertainment programming the left/liberal worldview today reigns
virtually unchallenged. As Andrew Klavan observes, it is now “almost an
unwritten law of Hollywood that any glancing reference to real-life
politics in a film or television show must be slanted left.” Just as
viewers can safely assume that the straightlaced businessman on
contemporary crime shows will turn out to be a bad guy, it’s an
excellent bet that, far from knowing best, today’s sitcom dad will be a
hapless lunkhead, while his fictional kids will be gung-ho
environmentalists.
Source: Harry Stein, "My Father, Fiddler, and the Left, City Journal, Summer 2014
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