Monday, January 11, 2010
Bring Back June Cleaver: PCTV Too Real For My Taste
"What is noteworthy, however, is that much of television during that time period was considered politically incorrect but in a strange way was actually more honest. How can that be, you may ask? The fake domestic bliss of 'Father Knows Best,' the racism of 'Amos and Andy,' the sexism of 'I Love Lucy' and so on. Yet there was a lot more credibility in those shows as entertainment than in the supposedly PC programming that probably started with Norman Lear’s 'All in the Family.'”
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