scully is the rationalist, the doctor. a lot of folks who enjoyed the x files who didn t otherwise watch tv might have been drawn to the show by its, for lack of a better way to put it, its stick it to the man ethos. don t trust the government, don t trust big business. don t trust anybody but yourself and your friends and family, i guess. it s a message that s somewhat dark and cynical, but was kind of a breath of fresh air in the early 90s. the 90s was a time of conspiracies and the internet was starting to spread beyond hard core computer users, so you could have message boards and usenet groups. everyone wanted to talk about the black oil and the bees and mulder s sister and what the cigarette smoking man was up to. people were so nuts for this show. it s just pure science fiction. that s probably what i like
triumphant was when it was showing the ways that being black is always going to be a problem no matter what. vehicle registration, please. just a sec. but the thing, officer, this isn t my car. there s the episode i remember where they get pulled over in a car. what? he is going to tell us to get out of the car. you watch too much tv. get out of the car. they have an interaction with a police officer that is horrible and racist in a lot of ways. and carlton has this epiphany about how money won t save him. no map is going to save you. and neither is your glee club or your fancy bel air address or who your daddy is. because when you re driving in a nice car in a strange neighborhood, none of that matters. they only see one thing. the writers of the fresh prince of bel air had a really hard task to approach these topics with nuance, and were doing it at a clip that was way ahead of their time. now don t touch that dial.
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and loews-tisch brothers buying cbs. and all of them want their money s worth. we ll now have the strongest network. we ll have a stronger defense piece. this is going to be one dynamite company. there s a danger that news will be mixed up with the rest of television and considered just another profit center. late 1920s, to early 1930s, to the early 1980s, the sense was, we ll give some of the broadcasting time to public service. but 1990s, journalism in the country changed a great deal. you couldn t talk about public service. it was, what are the ratings going to be? what are the demographics going to be? what is the profit going to be? well, sensationalism sells. in a plea bargain, 18-year-old amy fisher got up to 15 years in prison for shooting the wife of her alleged lover. so intense is the interest in this case that there are three, three made for tv-movies now in
soprano. you re a dick. there was still that communal sense from the earlier decades of tv, but it was being applied to shows that were reaching higher and farther, and they were great. because there were so many channels and because story telling was going on, you started to get more variety of stories being told. get the skull film, schedule a cat scan, and all the neurosurgery resident. objection! television showed us women in their depth. it began to show us much more of a range of the african american community. i m always here for you. we started focusing on teenagers in a more realistic way. thing change, dawson, evolve. what are you talking about? thinking a little more outside of the box in term os what people might want to watch. you re out of order. he s out of order. this whole trial is sexy. after ten years of the 90s, i had a whole new television