The best evidence for the existence of what the right likes to call the liberal media elite is not to be found in books such as Bernard Goldberg’s Arrogance: Rescuing America From the Media Elite. Nor can you really see it in the meaningfully [RETURN TO ARTICLE]
FOLLOW US
Also by Ana Marie Cox
-
Race to the Bottom
Some real-time reaction from the debates, swiped from my full-time gig as Wonkette. Let’s start with the “...
MORE » -
The Worst Show on Earth
The Republican National Convention, to paraphrase Jon Stewart of “The Daily Show,” put on a display of the...
MORE » -
All Hail the Liberal Media
Howard Kurtz in the June 9 Washington Post analyzed a new survey by the Pew Center for the People...
MORE »
SUPPORT INDEPENDENT MEDIA
Invest in the news you need. In These Times is a nonprofit, reader-supported magazine and website.
subscribe today for $19.95!
SAVE 53% OFFTHE NEWSSTAND PRICE!
MOST READ
- Why Conservatives Can’t Fix Poverty
- The Girl’s Guide to Staying Safe Online
- Siri and the High-Tech Gender Gap
- It’s the Stupid Republicans, Stupid
- True Crime Finance Stories
- Is the Federal Government Helping to Bust Unions?
- Anger Sowing Seeds of a New Consumer Movement
- What Can Labor Learn?
- Marching Off the Cliff
- New Eden, Old Devils

Reader Comments
Sounds like a likelier candidate to have been called ‘The Boykin Stigmata’, though I did not have the misfortune to have seen it.
Seems to me that Mrs. Cox has a little too much free time on her hands.
For Christ’s sake, lady, it’s a TV show.
“a case study in Hollywood’s contempt and condescension”
Get over yourself, please.
“other showcase series ... offer nuanced, occasionally hopeful views of class and morality”
Whoa - are you saying that there are individual fictional TV shows that are telling different stories from different viewpoints?
Whoda thunk it?
I bet if you looked at some books, you might observe a similar phenomenom.
How much more awful and unentertaining TV would be if there weren’t different POVs espoused.
register a new account »Posting Security