On Sat, Jul 20, 2019 at 8:48 PM Brad Beam <[email protected]> wrote:
> Or, to paraphrase Kevin, ESPN molests Animal Planet. > There was a gut reaction to Trump's 2016 victory saying he was such an outlier that he would stretch our politics and culture like a rubber band and once he is gone things will snap back to what they were before his election. As time goes on it is becoming clear that there will be no snap back. Our cultural institutions, like media companies, are very slow moving (they're built that way) and their reaction to the way things arte changing is to act like nothing is changing. Up until now there was a consensus that overt racism would be excluded from mainstream conversation. Racists could be deemed some sort of "other" and be marginalized. The consensus gets smashed when the Chief Executive makes overtly racist statements. He can't be marginalized and his followers will line up behind his statements. If a media organization decides its on camera talent can't call out racism then what credibility do they have in the public sphere? ESPN (really all of Disney) and the other media organizations are going to have to catch up to the moment. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAJE-FiE0bZQLzPWCTEA9x90K%2Bnfex07ZqRaiqJX%3DDAhw6gmXMg%40mail.gmail.com.
