Isn't it interesting how words can be used by the demagogues to conceal their real motives?

Idiot box. Good term. When my middle grandson was about ten or eleven, I referred to the TV as the 'boob tube', which he found extremely funny!

Found this:

https://books.google.com/books?id=EV0...

(Watching While Black, book by Beretta E. Smith-Shomade. Wonder if she's related to that gal who wrote Project 1619, I think that gal was a Smith Hyphen too.)

Oh, no. That gal was a Jones: Nikole Hannah-Jones.

Guess they had to remove good v evil, where good always wins and substitute Roots. Where white guys are the bad guys.

Looking at Freddie's Wiki bio, though some of his programs were probably not bad, in general the intellectual level was geared for a more childish audience. Do you see that too?

I wonder who the people were, the behind-the-scenes people, who hired him to replace the other guy, Matt Something-or-other.

Fred Silverman. Thanks, a name. I'll check up on him---do some research. (A lot of so-called 'smart' people do not understand the meaning of 'research' and actually believe 'real' research is some kind of scientific experiment, for which they have no true knowledge of how to do.---Not you, Carl).

After World War II, and the boys came home, mystified and unbelieving---I read somewhere that America lost its innocence in World War II---they needed the American Westerns, where the good guys wore the white hats and always beat the bad guys; for instance The Lone Ranger. It restored a belief that evil can always be overcome. After the sixties changed everything, 'Ain't I Right', by the seventies the westerns: good vs. bad, and anything with a tree in it, as Pat Buttram said, was taken off the air and moral relativity became the new 'right', shoving moral absolutism right down the toilet. But these rural shows were giving in to the liberal progressive hogwash by that time anyway. Arnold Ziffel on Green Acres in the last season of that rural show, was shown in a sketch being discriminated against in a school classroom because he was unfortunately, a pig. I enjoyed all the seasons of Green Acres until the last one.

As Cecil Sharpe, English folklorist said about the Appalachian people: they came face-to-face with reality on a daily basis. The folks in the rural shows were that kind of people, they knew reality. Arnold might have been a pig; but they knew he was a pig and it was funny to see a man with his boy, a pig. They knew it wasn't real.

I'll check up on Freddie boy.

Laughing, I love you too.