oh, well, uh, i ll take the first class. class has always played a role in the history of sitcoms. bon voyage laney. class is fascinating to us as a culture. i never check my baggage. i can t stand that wait, baggage area. it s good to laugh at it, to get it all out on the table you re going to have to go back to your seat. you know, our goal should be a society without classes! if we didn t laugh about social class in the united states, we would engage in class warfare. do you realize the people up here are getting cookies?! mmm! that is not a show about nothing. oh, come inside. so, to the left we have the bar, to the right we have the bathroom. oh, we have bathrooms upstairs, downstairs, many, many bathrooms. i do still believe that for all the things going on in our current society in america, you can come from anywhere and end up any place you want. immigration? revenue. [ screams ] i ve been gutted! it s crazy, people are just, like,
gonna have a conversation and hopefully insightful conversation around that very question, but we re also going to show you some television clips. so if historians do not watch enough television, maybe you ll get the chance to do it here and then we re going to talk about how we work with with tv and and at the end we want to bring you into the conversation, of course, and so if you re looking at the program you can see that that frank isn t able to join us today, unfortunately, and then my lights and everything you can tell that this is being recorded for c-span. and with me today to to help moderate this sage goodwin of university of oxford. yes. hi everyone. so yeah, we re getting pretty massive. we re gonna be filmed talking about tv, but first we re gonna introduce some of the political historians we have here to talk about working on tv and we re gonna you know, you can you can google them to find out it ll be amazing things that they ve written but we re gonna get to k
he took us out one at a time. just incredible. cnn s evan mcmorris-santoro is in hazard, kentucky. tell us what you re hearing and seeing from folks there. it s just heartbreaking. reporter: well, jim, this is the staging area in breathet county right near jackson where people are trying to get out there and do those rescues that you re talking about and do those efforts to find out what happened that you ve been talking about. we have some fresh drone footage in, we have the cnn drone out here flying around, and you can see the waters have receded, but leaving behind all that damage. now, what that s meant for this rescue effort is people can now get out on the ground and start looking around, and i have some news, some sad news that i just got from the sheriff here, john holland. he told me three bodies have been found just today from those searches, and he expects that there will be more as the day goes on. it s just a very harrowing situation, and there s a lot more t
clips. so if historians do not watch enough television, maybe you ll get the chance to do it here and then we re going to talk about how we work with with tv and and at the end we want to bring you into the conversation, of course, and so if you re looking at the program you can see that that frank isn t able to join us today, unfortunately, and then my lights and everything you can tell that this is being recorded for c-span. and with me today to to help moderate this sage goodwin of university of oxford. yes. hi everyone. so yeah, we re getting pretty massive. we re gonna be filmed talking about tv, but first we re gonna introduce some of the political historians we have here to talk about working on tv and we re gonna you know, you can you can google them to find out it ll be amazing things that they ve written but we re gonna get to know them a little bit better by asking and their relationship with tv by asking them. what was the first television event that they re
idiot is watching it. at this point in time, what is known as the platinum age. our obligation is to entertain and if we have something to think about, so much the better. television should not be just entertainment. charges were leveled at commercial television networks. congress has no right to interfere with the media. you have a responsibility to give the audience what it tendon to say. for years, the 60s, which end in a few hours have a reputation which is not entirely justified. some things got worse, obviously, but tv news coverage is better, not worse, we developed more demanding standards. when i look at the tv, i think of the 70s. what is this world coming to? the american public was hungry for more. mort was allowed than had been before. it was the last decade where it was a camp fire television, there was one in the living room. i m going to watch an all- black show for a change. where will you find one? here s one. young people were