Thursday, July 26, 2012

Ben Shapiro, author of "Primetime Propaganda: The True Hollywood Story of How the Left Took Over Your TV", Chronicles TV's Liberal Propaganda Efforts

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Carolina Journal  " “For now at least, the industry remains one-sided, with creators and executives ignoring the market data,” Shapiro writes. “Flipping the channel has become like voting in Cuba. You can do it, but your preference isn’t going to make much of a difference when the choices are all the same.”

"There’s another irony. While television screams “censorship” when government protests violent and sexual content, the industry sure doesn’t mind kowtowing to government when there’s a politically favorable (i.e. Democratic) administration in charge.

"Think about it: Unlike motion pictures, television has been dependent on the government since its inception due to its use of public airwaves. Thus it’s only natural that television executives would develop relationships with government to ensure political favoritism. As Shapiro notes, the “patented Hollywood-D.C back-scratch” became “an intensely common phenomenon during the Obama administration.” "



NRO; Switching TV to the Right   "...I can guarantee that if you watch anything other than Fox News, you’ve felt the Left’s ideological magnet tugging at your heartstrings. Virtually every major television comedy and drama of the last 40-odd years has been biased to the left, and the creators of the shows admitted as much to me."


Sesame Street's pinko puppets brainwash our kidsThat's the claim by a right-wing* author who says he's exposed a left-wing plot behind some top TV shows.
Again, the condescending label. Do they refer to David Letterman as a "left-wing" TV host?


Ben Shapiro as
 depicted in liberal sites
Reuters; TV executives confirm Hollywood's liberal agenda  " "I played on their stereotypes. When I showed up for the interviews, I wore my Harvard Law baseball cap -- my name is Ben Shapiro and I attended Harvard, so there's a 98.7 percent chance I'm a liberal. Except I happen not to be."  

" "My whole book is a plea for openness in the industry," he added. "Hire people from the other side of the aisle once in a while, or at least stop mocking them." "

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