Even before the ads, this story had legs!Media Group Assails 'Nightline' for Being Too Narrow : Koppel, Producer Challenge Report, Say Show Is a News Program, Not Equal-Access Forum
Los Angeles Times, Judith Michaelson, Feb. 6, 1989
http://articles.latimes.com/1989-02-06/entertainment/ca-1298_1_news-program/2
[Ted Koppel speaking]
" . . . we've been dealing with a rather conservative Reagan Administration. If we had a liberal administration in office, you would suddenly see an enormous disparity in the other direction."
"We were in the middle of the Iran-Contra hearings. Everyone wanted to talk to [arms dealer] Richard Secord but not to give him an opportunity to ask his views, but to ask a lot of tough questions."
A more left-leaning United States, and a "moment," which may have actually lasted a year or more.I'm a little confused on what the topic is about?
A more left-leaning United States, and a "moment," which may have actually lasted a year or more.
And slightly before the right-wing media criticism which started around 1993, left-wing media criticism and analysis steals this thunder!![]()
and the big one,
POD: The American left hits upon the criticism of "politically correctness" first! , and primarily in response to all kinds of bullshit governmental and corporate policies.
Decidedly.So here, "political correctness" would have a different association to it than in OTL?
Decidedly.
For example, when corporations used the term “downsizing” as a euphemism during the 1991 recession to refer to layoffs, and later briefly used “rightsizing,” those terms would be roundly mocked and criticized.
Clinton still wins in ‘92, and in a flight of fancy largely from more vocal popular pressure sees health care with the intuitive poker skills of Chris “Jesus” Ferguson, and sees that half-measures with a welter of complications just won’t be popular. He pushes for a straight up-and-down vote on whether to expand Medicare to 0-18 and 50-and-above.
All in all, both a more left and a more successful Clinton administration.
Might be significant improvement, but it is going to be expensive. But it is going to be straightforward.So basically Medicare is expanded to include minors and people starting at 50. . .
Because much of the rest of the media is also being criticized as "not liberal," certainly on the corporate and business side! Will try to look up when GE bought NBC as a pretty glaring example.. . . Fox News might actually get gimped here since it can't portray itself as being "not-liberal" media . . .
So, starting in Feb. '89, FAIR can beat them to the punch.Political correctness: how the right invented a phantom enemy
The Guardian [UK], by Moira Weigel, 30 Nov 2016
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...the-right-invented-phantom-enemy-donald-trump
' . . . One of the first and most influential was published in October 1990 by the New York Times reporter Richard Bernstein, who warned – under the headline “The Rising Hegemony of the Politically Correct” – that the country’s universities were threatened by “a growing intolerance, a closing of debate, a pressure to conform”. . . '
' . . . Bernstein’s alarming dispatch in America’s paper of record set off a chain reaction, as one mainstream publication after another rushed to denounce this new trend. The following month, the Wall Street Journal columnist Dorothy Rabinowitz decried the “brave new world of ideological zealotry” at American universities. In December [1990], the cover of Newsweek – with a circulation of more than 3 million – featured the headline “THOUGHT POLICE” and yet another ominous warning: “There’s a ‘politically correct’ way to talk about race, sex and ideas. Is this the New Enlightenment – or the New McCarthyism?” A similar story graced the cover of New York magazine in January 1991 – inside, the magazine proclaimed that “The New Fascists” were taking over universities. . . '
Might be significant improvement, but it is going to be expensive. But it is going to be straightforward.
Because much of the rest of the media is also being criticized as "not liberal," certainly on the corporate and business side! Will try to look up when GE bought NBC as a pretty glaring example.
Okay, Fox News is brash and in your face. They have good-looking women wearing Hollywood red carpet make-up. The women a lot of time seemingly sit in high chairs with glass table tops and side views, in tight skirts showing legs and curve of hip. Yes, really. No, I don't think the guys are similarly good looking. So, the show succeeds in being both sexy and sexist.
But then the shows sometimes talk down to their viewers, even as they attempt to make fun of someone else and take us along for the ride.
* just in case our UK friends aren't familiar with Fox!
So, many of the stories of "political correctness" based on urban legend types of things.Political correctness: how the right invented a phantom enemy
The Guardian [UK], by Moira Weigel, 30 Nov 2016
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...the-right-invented-phantom-enemy-donald-trump
' . . . Many of these articles recycled the same stories of campus controversies from a handful of elite universities, often exaggerated or stripped of context. The New York magazine cover story opened with an account of a Harvard history professor, Stephan Thernstrom, being attacked by overzealous students who felt he had been racially insensitive: “Whenever he walked through the campus that spring, down Harvard’s brick paths, under the arched gates, past the fluttering elms, he found it hard not to imagine the pointing fingers, the whispers. Racist. There goes the racist. It was hellish, this persecution.”
'In an interview that appeared soon afterwards in The Nation, Thernstrom said the harassment described in the New York article had never happened. There had been one editorial in the Harvard Crimson student newspaper criticising his decision to read extensively from the diaries of plantation owners in his lectures. But the description of his harried state was pure “artistic licence”. No matter: the image of college students conducting witch hunts stuck. . . '
The Tax Reform Act of 1986 (Reagan and some Democrats such as Bill Bradley) both closed some loopholes and lowered the top individual rate to 28%. Although importantly, it kept as a loophole the fiction of real estate depreciation.. . . tax the rich or at the very least, become harsher when dealing with insurance companies . . .
So, as an ironic joke, just like those on the political right might have ironic jokes.Political correctness: how the right invented a phantom enemy
The Guardian [UK], by Moira Weigel, 30 Nov 2016
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...the-right-invented-phantom-enemy-donald-trump
' . . . The phrase came into more widespread use in American leftist circles in the 1960s and 1970s – most likely as an ironic borrowing from Mao, . . . '
' . . . Ruth Perry, a literature professor at MIT who was active in the feminist and civil rights movements, says that many radicals were reading the Little Red Book in the late 1960s and 1970s, and surmises that her friends may have picked up the adjective “correct” there. But they didn’t use it in the way Mao did. “Politically correct” became a kind of in-joke among American leftists – something you called a fellow leftist when you thought he or she was being self-righteous. “The term was always used ironically,” Perry says, “always calling attention to possible dogmatism.” . . '