what s on the idiot box? it s only an idiot box if an idiot is watching. this period in time will be looked at as the platinum age. our obligation is to entertain. if we ve left something to think about, so much the better. kunta kinte. television should not be just entertainment. charges were leveled at the commercial television networks. congress has no right to interfere in the media. well, 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 t
our obligation is to entertain. if we ve left something to think about, so much the better. gunta kinte! television should not be just entertainment. 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
isn t that special? any tool for human expression will bring out both the best and the worst in us, and television has been that. they don t pay me enough to deal with animals like this. people are no longer embarrassed to admit they watch television. we have seen the news, and it is us. slowly but surely, the 1970s are disappearing. the 1980s will be upon us. what a decade it is coming up. happy new year! as you begin the 80s in the television world, the landscape was, on any given evening, 9 out of 10 people were watching only one of three networks. more than 30 million people are addicted to it. social critics are mystified by its success. what is it? it s television s primetime, prairie pot boiler, dallas. a move like that will destroy all of ewing oil, and it ll ruin our family name. i assure you, a thought like that never crossed my mind. brother or no brother, whatever it takes, i ll stop you from destroying ewing oil. dallas really did
listen to it. they know when it hits the bottom, it will be 1990, good-bye to the 80s. will this horrible year never end? when the 90s begin, we re starting to see a lot of experimentation. five, four, three, two, one! the simpsons in some sense was inspired by not necessarily hatred of television but distrust. tv respects me. it laughs with me, not at me. you re stupid. doh! i think the sitcoms of the 80s were such a sort of warm safe humor. you see, the kids they listen to the rap music, which gives them the brain damage. and i think there was a real yearning for another type of humor. we were able to spoof fatherhood. what a bad father. which at the time and i stress at the time was bill cosby as a shining example. did you ever know that you re my hero the stuff they got away with because it s a cartoon, the father strangling the child. why, you little! we are going to keep on trying to strengthen the american family to ma
good morning, everyone! here we are. we ve made it. everybody got up. we woke up. we re all awake. is this rehearsal or real? it s real. it s the real thing. are you guys ready? i think we re ready. i m don lemon alongside poppy harlow and kaitlan collins. it is november 1st and welcome to our very first show we hope you enjoy. you ll learn a lot about us and get a lot of news. a lot of news. since i moved here, a halloween parade outside my apartment last night that went until, like, 10:00 p.m. blaring music. all of this stuff as i was trying to get to bed early like a first day of school. kaitlan is texting us, i m like, welcome to new york, my friend. get used to trit. my kids got home from trick-or-treating, and my husband s like, why aren t you asleep? this is my new life, babe. and like eight of us, dinner party, trying to give me wine. i got to go. got to go. new friends. go to dinner. 6:00 p.m. i have two in friends. happy to be here. we re goi