As Seen On TV: Politics in Television History

In the first episode of 2021, marking a year since "Office Hours" started, we reflect on television history with Dr. Allison Perlman, a professor of Film and Media Studies and History at UCI. We discuss how social movements, politics, and struggles for diversity have played out in the last seventy years of television history, and how they are changing today. Talking points include how television contributed to the turbulent 1960's, how Rush Limbaugh's broadcasting set back discussions about race, and how to navigate the fast paced political news of today. Our intro song was "If I Had a Dime" by David Ryan Harris. To find out more: Public Interests: Media Advocacy and Struggles over U.S. Television: https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/public-interests/9780813572291 Flow TV: Television in the Age of Media Convergence: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/flow-tv-michael-kackman/1110950147 Rush Limbaugh and the Problem of the Color Line: https://www.jstor.org/stable/23253595?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents