CBS Puts On the Kneepads As the RNC Comes Calling
I’m not sure how seriously to take the precipitous el foldo CBS did over its “The Reagans” series under pressure from the usual horde of right-wing hyenas. On the one hand, it’s kind of startling and maybe dismaying to see how easily “speech” can be suppressed in this political environment.
On the other hand, the Reagans were two of the most vapid people to ever enter public life. Whether a dramatic work presents them faithfully or grossly misrepresents them, it’s bound to be a snooze either way. I’d probably never have watched it.
Maybe it’s more an indicator of how irrelevant network TV has become, when the goons at Fox can mau-mau these heretofore august institutions into 86-ing a piece of puff programming.
