Primetime Propaganda: The True Hollywood Story of How the Left Took Over Your TV
Ben Shapiro
Language: English
Pages: 416
ISBN: 006193478X
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
“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.
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influence people without compromising their values. It’s not an easy task. But it’s a vital one for conservatives—and for the country as a whole. If conservatives don’t engage, they’re putting themselves at a massive disadvantage—not only in the industry but in American politics more broadly—by foregoing access to the most effective message machine ever made. EXECUTIVES: EMBRACE FREEDOM The takeover of the executive hallways by liberals of all stripes is somewhat puzzling when we consider
important, taped television also meant that programming production could move to the West Coast, since the networks didn’t have to broadcast live from New York. While the programming executives remained in New York, the creative folks moved out west. Hollywood was a much smaller, more parochial community than New York—while New York was the cultural center of the world, it was also the financial center of the world, which meant that even its creative community recognized the necessity for
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considerable impatience with the maximum profit fixation of the current network owners,” Tinker said.76 Tinker’s first shows at NBC, unsurprisingly, were liberally oriented pick-ups from MTM Enterprises. He renewed Hill Street Blues, Bochco’s gritty cop show, despite that show’s dismal ratings. Then he picked up St. Elsewhere, a far-left show about medical school that featured a sex-change operation during the first season. The idea was to build up NBC’s prestige in the industry, create
yourself a “rock-star television executive” is unheard of.18 No wonder Peter Mehlman, who wrote for Seinfeld, dismissed Silverman out of hand to me: “I was reading an article where they were talking about Benny Silverman from NBC talking about how brilliant he is adapting shows from other countries. That’s a skill now? Come on.”19 But proving that quality of management matters less than whom you know, Silverman retained his job until July 2009. Finally he was ousted, leaving the network to