On Sun, Jul 21, 2019 at 9:20 AM Tom Wolper <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > > I suspect Disney would interpret the idea of playing catch-up to mean they should now rerelease Song of the South in the US so the overtly racist crowd can buy it. -- > 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 > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAJE-FiE0bZQLzPWCTEA9x90K%2Bnfex07ZqRaiqJX%3DDAhw6gmXMg%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- Kevin M. (RPCV) -- 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/CAKgmY4C0VadDmHPaxsssML%2BuoeaHjaM03TDzcaurF3aLSfucYg%40mail.gmail.com.
