TY - BOOK AU - Shapiro,Ben TI - Primetime propaganda: the true Hollywood story of the how the left took over your TV SN - 9780061934773 (hardback) AV - PN1992.3.U5 S534 2011 U1 - 791.450973 22 PY - 2011/// CY - New York PB - Broadside Books KW - Television programs KW - United States KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Mass media and propaganda KW - Popular culture KW - Liberalism KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture KW - bisacsh KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Conservatism & Liberalism N1 - 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 N2 - "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" -- ER -