Frenetic, surreal, careless, and grotesque…these are just a few words to describe The Pinky Lee Show. Critics of children’s television in the early 1950’s were alarmed, and while parents and children welcomed Pinky Lee into their living rooms, it is hard to imagine that anyone would allow the checkered, silly clown through their front doors. This […]
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Geraldo Rivera had taken note when his 1987 episode “Men in Lace Panties and the Women Who Love Them,” brought higher ratings. Disguising journalism and education with sensation, Rivera’s latest incarnation,Geraldo, intended to wring out the last drop of journalistic integrity for mass appeal and financial gain. In October, 1988, Geraldo put racism in the […]
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