Archie Bunker, the patriarch of 1970s hit sitcom All in the Family, used to sit on a recliner and yell at the nightly news, reserving his sharpest barbs for Walter Cronkite of CBS.
"Every evening, the theme of the show was him sitting around, watching Walter Cronkite and yelling at him," said Mitchell Stephens, a professor of journalism at New York University that has chronicled the changes in media. "That's how important these shows were in the national culture."
Today is a different story: "They're just not that important anymore." Read more...
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