Primetime Propaganda

The True Hollywood Story of How the Left Took Over Your TV

Ben Shapiro

• Publisher: HarperCollins e-books
• Year: 2011
• Print ISBN:
  9780061934780
• eBook ISBN:
  9780062092106
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Television

"Vitally important, devastatingly thorough, and shockingly revealing…. After reading Primetime Propaganda, you'll never watch TV the same way again."
—Mark Levin

Movie critic Michael Medved calls Ben Shapiro, "One of our most refreshing and insightful voices on the popular culture, as well as a conscience for his much-maligned generation." With Primetime Propaganda, the syndicated columnist and bestselling author of Brainwashed, Porn Generation, and Project President tells the shocking true story of how the most powerful medium of mass communication in human history became a vehicle for spreading the radical agenda of the left side of the political spectrum. Similar to what Bernard Goldberg's Bias and A Slobbering Love Affair did for the liberal news machine, Shapiro's Primetime Propaganda is an essential exposé of corrupting media bias, pulling back the curtain on widespread and unrepentant abuses of the Hollywood entertainment industry.

Index

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ABC, ix, xv, 20–23, 27, 28, 33, 34, 39, 51, 61, 62, 97, 118–21, 133, 186, 192, 195, 196, 213, 265, 274–76, 291, 337; advertisers and, 236–45; censors, 266, 273, 274, 275; The Day After and, 192–95; Disney and, 51, 53, 248; Eisner and, 179; Goldberg and, xvi, 33–34, 241; Goldenson and, 20–21, 33, 172–73, 193, 237; Iger and, 51; Kintner and, 22; Pierce and, 62, 225; sex and violence on, 20–23, 27, 32, 33, 39, 284; Silverman and, 38–39, 179, 181; Stoddard and, 45, 49, 133, 196, 225, 251; young, urban viewers and, 23, 33, 38, 48, 172, 237–38, 240–42. See also specific shows

ABC Family, 53, 82–83, 248, 289, 328, 329

abortion issue, xi, 3, 46, 61, 73, 74, 107, 118–19, 139, 142, 182, 192, 209, 216–17, 219, 222

Adorno, Theodor, 5, 239, 262

Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, 329

advertisers, xii, 6, 21–22, 25, 41, 45, 53, 54, 94, 232, 261; audience numbers and, 231, 236–45; family programming and, 345; market argument and, 9–13; programming content and, 27, 94, 120, 121, 164, 184, 228, 231, 251, 260, 278, 345–47; young, urban viewers and, 9–12, 244, 334

ageism, 77–78

Alda, Alan, 112, 211

Allen, Woody, 23, 90, 141, 197

Alliance for Family Entertainment, 329, 345–46, 347

All in the Family, 11, 12, 16, 36, 37–38, 41, 42, 44, 57, 80, 87–88, 90, 93, 103–7, 108, 115, 116, 122, 125, 127, 129, 134, 137, 138, 159, 174, 175, 176, 189, 227, 242, 244, 245, 251, 253, 255, 269, 274, 276, 277, 287, 339

All My Children, 183

Ally McBeal, 58, 67, 199, 212

Amazing Race, The, 76, 255

American Dad, 154, 331

American Idol, 255, 344

America’s Most Wanted, 271

And the Band Played On, 179

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Prologue
• Introduction
• The Secret Political History of Television
• The Clique
• A Spoonful of Sugar
• Making The Right Cry
• “Shut Up and Change the Channel”
• The Celluloid Triangle
• The Government-Hollywood Complex
• Robbing the Cradle
• The End of Television?
• Appendix
• Acknowledgments
• Notes
• Index
• About the Author
• Also by the Author
• Credits
• Copyright
• About the Publisher