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...desires an improved quality of life that it cannot have while being daily inundated with the absurd "infotainment" thrust into its citizens' homes. Children grow up literally addicted to television and to the self-debasing consumerism fostered by the media trusts. Our future is threatened as much by NBC, ABC, CBS and CNN as it is by MTV, itself the child of media giant Viacom...
...with them--hence the transformation of the neighborhood school into a "caring community." It may sound like a platitude, but it is in fact a revolution, one that is spreading through the country, from inner-city ghettos to prosperous suburbs and rural enclaves, as fast as you can say ABC...
...urban centers, but the only thing black on them is the coffee) or, increasingly, shows with multiethnic ensemble casts, like the NBC dramas ER and Homicide or Fox's new sitcom Lush Life, which stars two female friends, one white and one black, as does ABC 's new Clueless. A significant number of minorities still appear on TV, but they are only intermittently at the center of the action...
Indeed, failed pilots are hardly news. But is there a more complicated explanation than NBC's N.B.C. answer? Perhaps. TV seems to be undergoing a racial restructuring, a kind of ethnic perestroika. The four biggest networks, ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox, which finished announcing their prime-time fall lineups last week, appear to be turning away from minority programming. CBS will have only one black-themed show next fall, a new Bill Cosby sitcom. ABC will have only the aging sitcom Family Matters and the new sitcom Common Law, with Latino stand-up Greg Giraldo. Fox, once a bastion...
...laugh at the silly videos we thought were so cool only about seven years back; we yearn for the funnier, fresher David Letterman of, oh, about a year or so ago; perhaps some of us are already feeling misty-eyed in the wake of ABC's announcement last week that Daniel Benzali--who helped make baldness telegenic--will be departing from Murder One next season...