How Politics Imitates Television

This month, Frum Forum is celebrating the 40th and 10th anniversaries of two TV events that were, in their wide-ranging effect, as big a "game change" in what we watch as Obama vs. Palin was in politics.  Forty years ago, CBS redefined the TV landscape with its notorious 1971 "Rural Purge." …

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Written by Telly Davidson on Friday August 5, 2011

Reality TV's First Family

HBO's new film "Cinema Verite" looks at the groundbreaking 1970s PBS series "An American Family", a show which blurred the line between fiction and real life. Today, (supposedly) "reality" shows that cynically and purposefully manipulate very real people into pre-arranged situations for maximum …

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Written by Telly Davidson on Friday April 22, 2011