Primetime propaganda : the true Hollywood story of the how the left took over your TV /

Shapiro, Ben.

Primetime propaganda : the true Hollywood story of the how the left took over your TV / Ben Shapiro. - 1st ed. - New York : Broadside Books, 2011. - xx, 394 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes index.

Prologue: How conservatives lost the television war -- Introduction: The political perversion of television -- The secret political history of television : how television became liberal -- The clique : how television stays liberal -- A spoonful of sugar : how television comedy trashes conservatism -- Making the Right cry : how television drama glorifies liberalism -- "Shut up and change the channel" : how the Left uses the market myth to silence its critics -- The celluloid triangle : how interest groups, government and Hollywood conspire to keep TV left -- The government-Hollywood complex : how Hollywood became the federal government's PR firm -- Robbing the cradle : how television liberals recruit kids -- The end of television? : How to fix TV -- Appendix: The best conservative shows in television history.

"The story of how the most powerful medium of mass communication in human history became a propaganda tool for one side of the political spectrum: the left side" --

9780061934773 (hardback)

2011006275


Television programs--History--United States--20th century.
Mass media and propaganda--History--United States--20th century.
Popular culture--History--United States--20th century.
Liberalism--History--United States--20th century.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Conservatism & Liberalism

PN1992.3.U5 / S534 2011

791.450973