Citation

Karnick ST. Acad. Quest. 2010; 23(4): 450-457.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2010, National Association of Scholars, Publisher Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/s12129-010-9193-8

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Abstract

Since the early 1970s, academia and popular culture have both been notorious for advancing so-called progressive political agendas. But whereas the university has continued and even accelerated its implementation of left-wing ideology, popular culture has gone in the opposite direction in the past decade, casting off the confining political straitjacket of earlier years and becoming more diverse in the ideas and values it presents. In fact, it's not at all too much to say that today's broadcast network and non-premium cable TV dramas and comedies are a good deal more hospitable to the values traditionally considered conducive to personal success and happiness than those conveyed by the nation's institutions of higher education.Although the subject matter of today's shows is even more provocative than in previous years, these elements are typically used in ways that either convey traditional values and ideas or are at least compatible with them. And although there still are shows and th...

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