Oscar Winberg

*insert gif of walter cronkite removing glasses, nov. 22, 1963*

Best of luck with your new adventure, Thomas!!

Congratulations!!

Archie Bunker for President Delving into the intersection of television entertainment and American politics during the 1970s, focusing on the sitcom All in the Family, this book explore...

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Even as Jimmy Kimmel returns to the airwaves, TV networks remain more vulnerable to political pressure than ever before President Nixon tried and failed to cancel ‘The Dick Cavett Show.’ Since then, deregulation and consolidation have made media conglomerates more willing to accommodate those in power.

Appreciating these developments, Sage Goodwin & I argue in @theconversation.com, is key to understanding why Kimmel's brief suspension won't be the last attack on television's rights to criticize the president.

Chuck Colson, the little devil on Nixon's shoulder, assured him "we've been trying to [screw him]." But neither Colson nor Nixon could bend the networks to their will.

Today, decades of declining ratings, deregulation & consolidation, and partisan attacks on the media have changed the calculus.

Even as Jimmy Kimmel returns to the airwaves, TV networks remain more vulnerable to political pressure than ever before President Nixon tried and failed to cancel ‘The Dick Cavett Show.’ Since then, deregulation and consolidation have made media conglomerates more willing to accommodate those in power.

Trump is not the first president eager to have an ABC talk show host cancelled. Back in the early 1970s, Nixon was fuming over Dick Cavett, asking his aides "is there any way we can screw him?"

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(re)read It Can't Happen Here this spring, it hits real hard in 2025.

Fair! It's only September, though, so no pressure.

Amazing! I would love to see the syllabus for the History of Reality TV course!!

This is dangerous. There's no other way to say it. Dangerous. Dangerous. Dangerous.

Happy Birthday, Paul!! Hope ATL Airport does not take up the entire day (although from the looks of it it's taking up all morning).

Telnaes cartoon depicting Trump's birthday doodle to Epstein of a naked woman's torso with his own signature as pubes. Telnaes has added the severed limbs of blindfolded lady justice behind the torso.

My favorite cartoonist working today is @anntelnaes.bsky.social.

YouTube video by Mr. Divery American Dad! - ollie north

Oliver North and Fawn Hall is in the news again which is the perfect excuse to re-post this vid I use to teach Iran-Contra.

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started rewatching The Sopranos for the first time since the original run and never really appreciated 1) how much of a middle-aged dad show it actually is, 2) how most everybody in the show is a fucking loser, and 3) how endlessly charming James Gandolfini was.

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Don't tell RFK Junior.

I'm not saying that was the Golden Era of TV news, I'm saying we are now in the Golden Shower Era of TV news.

It's humiliating, it stinks, and it's icky-sticky.

for what it's worth, when CBS News was accused of "deceptively editing" interviews in the 1970s Frank Stanton stood up for news department and even risked facing a jail cell for refusing a congressional subpoena.

"Reality has a well-known liberal bias" used to be a laugh line.

To be clear, Agnew would say that to Trump and his cronies not to @jayrosen.bsky.social.

Even Spiro Agnew would be like "whoa, that's going a little far, my dude..." and Agnew was such a dick that his name was literally an anagram for grow a penis.

Looking forward to this one!

Looks like an amazing class! Thank you for sharing the syllabus 🙏

My book isn’t in this thread but it’s also on sale!! Makes my amazing masterpiece only $11!

We both know you’ve spent $11 on something that wasn’t worth it—I promise this is.

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Thank you, I am so happy with the cover design!

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Finally, you can also use the 01NEWSITE50 code to get 50% off pre-orders for my own book: Archie Bunker for President!

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Intrepid Girls When eight-year-old Amy Erdman Farrell moved with her family to Akron, Ohio, in 1972, she found herself adrift in a sea of taunting boys and mean girls. Shy ...

Sometimes a cover catches your attention & the description wins you over. For me, @amyefarrell.bsky.social upcoming Intrepid Girls on the history of the girl scouts is that book: uncpress.org/978146968683...

Midwest Unrest In the nation’s so-called heartland, racism is sometimes subtler than in other parts of the country but just as insidious. When Black communities across th...

The Justice, Power, and Politics serie's awesome & recent additions look great: Midwest Unrest by Ashley Howard, Mississippi Law by @randolphjustin.bsky.social, & Carceral Apartheid by @curlyprofessor.bsky.social: uncpress.org/978146968486...
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Lawyer, Jailer, Ally, Foe It is 1942, and World War II is raging. In the months since Pearl Harbor, the US has plunged into the war overseas—and on the home front, it has locked up ...

And Eric L. Muller's Lawyer, Jailer, Ally, Foe (yes, the title slaps) on the white lawyers in the American concentration camps for Japanese Americans (yes, it also seems relevant today!): uncpress.org/978146967397...