by Ben Shapiro
49. Levine, Wallowing in Sex, 198.
50. Gitlin, Inside Prime Time, 252.
51. Interview with Susan Harris, May 4, 2009.
52. Darrell Y. Hamamoto, Nervous Laughter (New York: Praeger, 1989), 135.
53. Louis Chunovic, One Foot on the Floor (New York: TV Books, 2000), 154.
54. Ibid., 125–26.
THE GOVERNMENT-HOLLYWOOD COMPLEX
1. Jean Edward Smith, FDR (New York: Random House, 2007), 757.
2. Robert B. Stinnett, Day of Deceit: The Truth About FDR and Pearl Harbor (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000), 107.
3. Betty Houchin Winfield, FDR and the News Media (New York: Columbia University Press, 1994), 109.
4. Monte M. Poen, ed., Strictly Personal and Confidential (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1999), 165.
5. David Halberstam, The Powers That Be (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1975), 329.
6. Erik Barnouw, A History of Broadcasting in the United States (New York: Oxford University Press, 1977), 144.
7. Dennis Mazzocco, Networks of Power: Corporate TV’s Threat To Democracy (Boston: South End Press, 1994), 42.
8. Leonard H. Goldenson, Beating the Odds (New York: Scribner’s, 1991), 274–75.
9. Ibid., 287.
10. Ibid., 189–90.
11. Sally Bedell Smith, In All His Glory (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1990).
12. Robert J. Brown, Manipulating the Ether: The Power of Broadcast Radio in Thirties America (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1998), 15.
13. Smith, In All His Glory, 375–76.
14. Joseph D. Straubhaar and Robert LaRose, Media Now: Understanding Media, Culture, and Technology (Florence, KY: Thompson Wadsworth, 2006), 214.
15. Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows (New York: Ballantine, 2007), xiii.
16. Michael A. Genovese, The Watergate Crisis (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1999), 101.
17. Louis Edward Ingelhart, Press Freedoms (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1987), 313.
18. Richard Reeves, “A Media Monster—Who, Me?” New York, Nov. 26, 1973.
19. Joel H. Spring, Images of American Life (Albany: State University of New York, 1992), 222–23.
20. Nixon Tapes, May 13, 1971.
21. Walter Pincus and George Lardner Jr., “Nixon Hoped Antitrust Threat Would Sway Network Coverage,” Washington Post, Dec. 1, 1997.
22. Transcript, “Booknotes: Connie Bruck,” C-SPAN, July 20, 2003. www.booknotes.org/Transcript/?ProgramID=1737.
23. Connie Bruck, When Hollywood Had a King (New York: Random House, 2004), 291–92.
24. Pincus and Lardner, “Nixon Hoped Antitrust Threat Would Sway Network Coverage.”
25. Kathleen Sharp, Mr. and Mrs. Hollywood: Edie and Lew Wasserman and Their Entertainment Empire (New York: Carroll & Graf, 2003), 322–26.
26. “The Financial Interest and Syndication Rules,” Museum.tv, www.museum.tv/eotvsection.php?entrycode=financialint.
27. Interview with Gene Reynolds, May 7, 2009.
28. Interview with Michael Brandman, June 8, 2009.
29. Sharp, Mr. and Mrs. Hollywood, 464.
30. Transcript, “Booknotes: Connie Bruck,” C-SPAN, July 20, 2003. http://www.booknotes.org/Transcript/?ProgramID=1737
31. Kurt Anderson, “The Clinton-Hollywood Co-Dependency,” Time, June 7, 1993.
32. Ben Dickenson, Hollywood’s New Radicalism (New York: I. B. Tauris, 2006), 47.
33. Terry Christensen and Peter J. Haas, Projecting Politics: Political Messages in American Film (Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 2005), 50.
34. Ira Teinowitz, “MTV Inaugural Ball to Celebrate Change, Volunteerism,” TVWeek.com, Nov. 2008.
35. Anderson, “Clinton-Hollywood Co-Dependency.”
36. Timothy Lynch, “Dereliction of Duty: The Constitutional Record of President Clinton,” Cato.org, Mar. 31, 1997.
37. Raymond L. Fischer, “Is It Possible to Regulate Television Violence?” Society for the Advancement of Education, July 1994.
38. Dickenson, Hollywood’s New Radicalism, 47–48.
39. Bill Carter, Desperate Networks (New York: Doubleday, 2006), 145, 150.
40. Brody Mullins, “Studios Take Hit in Tax Bill,” Roll Call, Oct. 7, 2004.
41. Tamar Brott, “mommy, what does %#!@ mean?” Los Angeles, Sept. 2005.
42. Jennifer Hoar, “FCC Firm on Super Bowl Indecency Fine,” CBSnews.com, Feb. 23, 2006.
43. Michael Scherer, “The FCC’s Cable Crackdown,” Salon.com, Aug. 30, 2005.
44. Brott, “mommy, what does %#!@ mean?”
45. Scherer, “FCC’s Cable Crackdown.”
46. Ibid.
47. Sallie Hofmeister, “Indecency Proposal Getting Static from Cable,” Los Angeles Times, Apr. 5, 2005.
48. Interview with Gene Reynolds, May 7, 2009.
49. Scherer, “FCC’s Cable Crackdown.”
50. Hofmeister, “Indecency Proposal Getting Static.”
51. Ronald Grover and Todd Shields, “Why Hollywood Loves the White House Again,” BusinessWeek.com, July 8, 2010.
52. Ben Shapiro, “NBC’s ObamaVision: GE Uses Network to Push Obama’s Green Agenda—and Rakes In the Dough,” BigHollywood.breitbart.com, Nov. 16, 2009. http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bshapiro/2009/11/16/propaganda-ge-uses-nbc-to-push-obamas-green-agenda-and-rakes-in-the-dough/print.
53. “President Draws 24.7 Million; So You Think You Can Dance Benefits,” TVByTheNumbers.com, July 23, 2010, http://tvbythenumbers.com/2009/07/23/wednesday-ratings-the-president-speaks-fox-so-you-think-you-can-dance-win-easily/23356.
54. Howard Kurtz, “The Prez, the Press, the Pressure,” Washington Post, Aug. 3, 2009.
55. Ibid.
56. David D. Kirkpatrick, “Drug Industry to Run Ads Favoring White House Plan,” New York Times, Aug. 8, 2009.
57. Ted Johnson, “Show Biz Still Supports the Democrats,” Wilshireandwashington.com, July 19, 2010, www.wilshireandwashington.com/2010/07/show-biz-still-supports-the-democrats.html.
58. Marvin Ammori, “TV Competition Nowhere: How the Cable Industry Is Colluding to Kill Online TV,” Free Press, Jan. 2010.
59. Pub. L. No. 102-385, Sec. 2(a)(2) (1992).
60. “The Failure of Cable Deregulation,” U.S. Public Interest Research Group, Aug. 2003. http://cdn.publicinterestnetwork.org/assets/qZPECxJiK5daxX6nCmUS8g/failure ofcabledereg.pdf.
61. Ibid.
62. James Bovard, “Needed: The Separation of Cable and State,” Future of Freedom Foundation, May 1998.
63. David J. Saylor, “Municipal Ripoff: The Unconstitutionality of Cable Television Franchise Fees and Access Support Payments,” Catholic University Law Review 35 (Spring 1986): 672.
64. “The Failure of Cable Deregulation,” U.S. Public Interest Research Group, Aug. 2003, http://cdn.publicinterestnetwork.org/assets/qZPECxJiK5daxX6nCmUS8g/failure ofcabledereg.pdf.
65. Mark Landler, “Gore Urges Cable Industry to Take On the Bells,” New York Times, Apr. 30, 1996.
66. “A Brief History: The Bell System,” AT&T website, www.corp.att.com/history/history3.html.
67. Lawrence Gasman, Telecompetition: The Free Market Road to the Information Highway (Washington, DC: Cato Institute, 1994), 52.
68. Bovard, “Separation of Cable and State.”
69. Turner Broadcasting System v. FCC, 512 U.S. 622 (1994).
70. Ammori, “TV Competition Nowhere.”
71. “The Failure of Cable Deregulation,” U.S. Public Interest Research Group, Aug. 2003, http://cdn.publicinterestnetwork.org/assets/qZPECxJiK5daxX6nCmUS8g/failureofcabledereg.pdf.
72. Brian Stelter and Bill Carter, “Fox Returns to Cablevision,” NYTimes.com, Oct. 30,
2010, http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/30/fox-returns-to-cablevision.
73. Interview with Barbara Fisher, July 6, 2009.
74. Interview with Gary David Goldberg, May 19, 2009.
75. Interview with Michael Brandman, June 8, 2009.
76. “George Clooney Denies Advising Barack Obama,” Daily Mail (UK), Aug. 14, 2008.
77. “Edward Norton’s Obama Documentary Gets a Hollywood Ending,” EcoRazzi.com, Nov. 5, 2008.
78. Ira Teinowitz, “Obama Had Hollywood Help on Infomercial,” AdAge.com, Oct. 30, 2008.
79. YouTube, www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgHHX9R4Qtk.
80. “Hollywood Woos Obama Volunteers,” Associated Press, Oct. 30, 2008.
81. Jeffrey Resner, “Obama’s Real Friends in Hollywood,” Politico.com, Nov. 19, 2008.
82. Jennifer Parker, “Obama Grants First Family Interview to Access Hollywood,” ABCNews.com, July 8, 2008.
83. Tina Daunt, “Obama’s Filmland Backers Are Asked to Open Wallets,” Los Angeles Times, Jan. 25, 2007.
84. “Obama’s Hollywood Fundraiser Nets $9M,” CBSNews.com, Sept. 17, 2008.
85. Ronald Grover and Todd Shields, “Why Hollywood Loves the White House Again,” BusinessWeek.com, July 8, 2010.
86. “Barack Obama (D) Inauguration Donors,” OpenSecrets.org, www.opensecrets.org/pres08/inaug.php#states.
87. Andrew Malcolm, “A Surprise: Oprah Pays a Real Cost for Supporting Barack Obama,” LATimes.com, Apr. 9, 2008.
88. Ibid.
89. Phil Rogers, “Blagojevich Considered Oprah for Senator,” NBCChicago.com, June 28, 2010.
90. “Ellen Interviews Barack Obama,” WarnerBros.com, Oct. 22, 2008.
91. “McCain Tells Ellen DeGeneres: You Shouldn’t Have the Right to Get Married,” ThinkProgress.com, May 22, 2008.
92. Marc Malkin, “Ellen DeGeneres on Barack Obama, Prop. 8,” EOnline.com., Nov. 5, 2008.
93. Karen Travers and Brian Braiker, “Obama, on The View, Discusses the ‘Roses’ and ‘Thorns’ of the Presidency,” ABCNews.com, July 28, 2010.
94. Saul Alinsky, Rules for Radicals (New York: Vintage Books, 1989), 75.
95. Mark Leibovich, “Chevy Chase as the Klutz in Chief, and a President Who Was in on the Joke,” New York Times, Dec. 29, 2006.
96. Bill Carter, “Comedians Find Obama Jokes a Tough Sell,” New York Times, July 15, 2008.
97. Ani Esmailian, “Chris Rock: Obama Is Comedian’s Worst Nightmare,” Hollyscoop.com, Jan. 20, 2009.
98. Joe Garofoli, “For Comedians, Obama Poses a Serious Dilemma,” San Francisco Chronicle, Nov. 19, 2008.
99. “The Joke’s on McCain: Late-Night Comedians Lay Off Obama,” LATimes.com, Aug. 21, 2008.
100. Ibid.
101. Interview with Gary David Goldberg, May 19, 2009.
102. “Can The Daily Show Survive the Barack Obama Presidency?” New York, Nov. 6, 2008.
103. Josh Wolk, “Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert: Mock the Vote,” Entertainment Weekly, Sept. 30, 2008.
104. Ibid.
105. Ibid.
106. Carter, “Comedians Find Obama Jokes a Tough Sell.”
107. Noel Sheppard, “Daily Show Writers Helped Obama with Correspondents’ Dinner Jokes,” Newsbusters.org, May 3, 2010.
108. Interview with Doug Herzog, June 22, 2009.
109. Interview with Michelle Ganeless, July 6, 2009.
110. Interview with Doug Herzog, June 22, 2009.
111. Kristen Fyfe, “Boston Legal: 55 Million McCain/Palin Supporters ‘Idiots’ and Bloggers ‘Entry-Level Life Forms,’ ” Newsbusters.org, Nov. 18, 2008.
112. Richard Huff, “TV Shows Elect to Take Note of Obama Victory,” New York Daily News, Nov. 20, 2008.
113. Interview with Michael Nankin, June 3, 2009.
114. Opensecrets.org.
HOW TELEVISION LIBERALS RECRUIT KIDS
1. Matea Gold, “No Liberal Bias at PBS, Responds Network President,” Los Angeles Times, May 25, 2005.
2. David Folkenflik, “CPB Memos Indicate Level of Monitoring,” NPR.org, Aug. 19, 2010.
3. Tom Hollis, Greg Ehrbar, Mouse Tracks: The Story of Walt Disney Records (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2006), 15–16.
4. L. Wayne Hicks, “Bob Keeshan Interview,” TVParty.com, www.tvparty.com/keeshan1.html.
5. Robert W. Morrow, Sesame Street and the Reform of Children’s Television (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006), 60.
6. L. Wayne Hicks, “Bob Keeshan Interview,” TVParty.com, www.tvparty.com/keeshan1.html.
7. Interview with Mike Dann, May 21, 2009.
8. Norimitsu Onishi, “Evelyn P. Davis, 75, Messenger for Sesame Street in Inner City,” NYTimes.com, Jan. 13, 1997.
9. Louise Gikow, Sesame Street: A Celebration of Forty Years of Life on the Street (New York: Black Dog & Leventhal, 2009), 293.
10. Morrow, Sesame Street, 93.
11. “On Sesame Street, ‘C’ Is for Controversy,” NPR.org, Nov. 12, 2009.
12. Peter Hellman, “Street Smart,” New York, Nov. 23, 1987.
13. Muriel Cohen, “Street Smarts,” Boston Globe, Oct. 29, 1989.
14. Robin Abcarian, “Divorce Is a Tough Row for Sesame Street to Hoe,” Los Angeles Times, Mar. 27, 1992.
15. Gikow, Sesame Street: A Celebration, 161.
16. Larry Elder, “A Christmas Story—in the Mall Parking Lot,” Creators Syndicate, Jan. 4, 2007, http://townhall.com/columnists/LarryElder/2007/01/04/a_christmas_story_ —_in_the_mall_parking_lot.
17. “Learning About Diversity,” Sesamestreet.org, www.sesamestreet.org/parents/topics/getalong/getalong06.
18. “Expose Your Child to a World of Diversity,” SesameStreet.org, www.sesamestreet.org/parents/topics/getalong/getalong03.
19. Marcella Bombardieri, “Summers’ Remarks on Women Draw Fire,” Boston Globe, Jan. 17, 2005.
20. Michael Jensen, “TCA Weekend Update: Neil Patrick Harris, ‘The Starter Wife’ and more!” AfterElton.com, July 21, 2008.
21. “Bring the Learning Fun of Sesame Street into Your Classroom,” PBS.org, www.pbs.org/teachers/earlychildhood/articles/sesamestreet.html.
22. Morrow, Sesame Street, 154–55.
23. Gikow, Sesame Street: A Celebration, 252.
24. Ibid., 11.
25. “Top 10 Sesame Street controversies,” TheWeek.com, Nov. 10, 2009.
26. Randall Herbert Balmer, Encyclopedia of Evangelism (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2002), 495.
27. Daniel Lewis, “Mister Rogers, TV’s Friend for Children, Is Dead at 74,” NYTimes.com, Feb. 28, 2003.
28. James Gorman, “Of Dinosaurs Why Must This One Thrive?” New York Times, Apr. 11, 1993.
29. Lisa de Moraes, “PBS’s ‘Buster’ Gets an Education,” Washington Post, Jan. 27, 2005.
30. “About the Program,” PBS.org, www.pbs.org/parents/arthur/program/prog_summary.html.
31. “Classic Hit ‘We Are Family’ Remixed to Spread the Message of Diversity and Tolerance to Elementary School Children Nationwide,” We Are Family Foundation, Nov. 4, 2004, www.wearefamilyfoundation.org/files/PressRelease_MusicalMessage11.04PR.pdf.
32. “Who We Are,” WeAreFamilyFoundation.org, www.wearefamilyfoundation.org/mission.
33. “Children’s TV Unites to Launch Pro-Gay Campaign,” American Family Assocation Journal, Jan. 2005.
34. David D. Kirkpatrick, “Conservatives Pick Soft Target: A Cartoon Sponge,” New York Times, Jan. 20, 2005.
35. Sally Helgesen, The Web of Inclusion (Washington, DC: Beard Books, 1995), 222–23.
36. Allan Neuwirth, Makin’ Toons: Inside the Most Popular Animated TV Shows and Movies (New York,: Allworth Press, 2003), 58, 62.
37. Kevin Zimmerman, �
�Not Just for Kids Anymore,” Daily Variety, Mar. 23, 1995.
38. Brad Stetson and Joseph G. Conti, The Truth About Tolerance: Pluralism, Diversity, and the Culture Wars (Downers Grover, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2005), 117.
39. John Stephenson, “Nick News Pushes Leftist Propaganda on Kids,” Newsbusters.org, Oct. 31, 2007.
40. “Nick Mulling Post-Spears Pregnancy Show,” Associated Press, Dec. 20, 2007.
41. “Respect,” Nick.com, www.nick.com/all_nick/everything_nick/kaiser/respect.html.
42. P. J. Gladnick, “Nickelodeon Broadcasts Cartoon Homage to ‘Dear Leader’ Obama,” Newsbusters.org, Mar. 5, 2009, http://newsbusters.org/blogs/p-j-gladnick/2009/03/05/nickelodeon-broadcasts-cartoon-homage-dear-leader-obama.
43. Sharon Kennedy Wynne, “Sex Jokes and Raunch Have Parents Furious with Nickelodeon,” TampaBay.com, Nov. 6, 2009, www.tampabay.com/features/parenting/sex-jokes-and-raunch-have-parents-furious-with-nickelodeon/1049771.
44. “Michael Eisner Launches First Animated TV Series Since Leaving Disney,” Guardian (UK), Mar. 15, 2010.
45. Alana Goodman, “Nickelodeon Game Lets Kids Play at Trying to Look Up Skirt of ‘Naughty’ Cartoon Teachers,” Newsbusters.org, June 14, 2010.
46. Christine Parsons, “Fallout from Breastgate: Is Nickelodeon Marketing MTV to Kids?” San Francisco Chronicle, Feb. 11, 2004.
47. Patricia Sellers, “The Women of Viacom,” CNN.com, Oct. 11, 2006.
48. Karl Taro Greenfeld, “How Mickey Got His Groove Back,” Portfolio.com, Apr. 14, 2008.
49. “Miley Cyrus’ New Movie LOL: Virginity Loss, Pot Smoking, Lesbian Kisses,” HuffingtonPost.com, Aug. 23, 2010.
50. Meg James and Dawn C. Chmielewski, “Teen Sex in Secret Life Births Debate over ABC Family Values,” Los Angeles Times, Feb. 1, 2009.
51. Brian Juergens, “ABC Family’s Curious Origins and Bright Future,” AfterElton.com, Aug. 26, 2007.
52. “ ‘Gay Tinky Winky Bad for Children,’ ” BBC.co.uk, Feb. 15, 1999.
53. “The U.K.’s Answer to Barney: It’s ‘Teletubbies’ Time,” CNN.com, Dec. 24, 1997.
54. Joyce Millman, “Tubbythumping,” Salon.com, Apr. 3, 1998.
55. Michael Colton, “I’m Sorry, Tinky Winky,” Salon.com, Feb. 13, 1999.
