charges were leveled at the commercial television networks. congress has no right to interfere in the media. excuse me! we have the responsibility to give the audience what it tuned in to see. the years of the 60s which end in a few hours have a bad reputation that is not entirely justified. some things got worse, obviously. but tv and other news coverage is better, not worse. we simply developed more demanding standards. when i think of tv, i think of the 70s. what is this world coming to? the american public was hungry for more. more was allowed that hadn t been before. it was the last decade where it was a campfire television, where there was one in the living room. i want to watch an all-black show for a change. oh, where are you going to find one? here s one the los angeles lakers against the milwaukee bucks. young people were interested in relevant things. and so, television began to reflect that. this is cbs. really it was very
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hungry for more. more was allowed that hadn t been before. it was the last decade where it was a campfire television, where there was one in the living room. i want to watch an all-black show for a change. oh, where are you going to find one? here s one the los angeles lakers against the milwaukee bucks. young people were interested in relevant things. and so television began to reflect that. this is cbs. really it was very simple. you had three channels plus pbs. when the decade turned over into the 70s, television was very rural. hee haw! the beverly hillbillies. cbs had the beverly hillbillies. green acres. petticoat junction. and these kind of rural fantasies of mayberryism. the hillbilly shows were everywhere and then they weren t. fred silverman who was running programming at cbs said, we re going to get rid of the