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...These shows increasingly make the abnormal normal and set up the most perverse role models," says Lieberman. "It's time for a revolt of the revolted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: TARGET: TRASH | 11/6/1995 | See Source »

...Want to Be an Escort" and "My Girlfriend Is a Guy." To some viewers that's entertainment. To others it's idiocy. To former Education Secretary William Bennett, it's cause for alarm. Bennett and C. DeLores Tucker, noted gangsta-rap haters, have joined with Senators Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut and Sam Nunn of Georgia in a campaign to wean Americans off what they call "cultural...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: TARGET: TRASH | 11/6/1995 | See Source »

...Obviously there isn't much point in trying to shame the guests.) It won't be easy. Nearly every talk show that has tried "serious" subjects has floundered in the ratings, while those on a diet of sex and sensationalism have done well. Only Oprah Winfrey--held up by Lieberman as exemplary--has kept to the relatively high road, but her ratings (though still No. 1) are down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: TARGET: TRASH | 11/6/1995 | See Source »

...turning off their television sets. And, to me, it seems that is a legitimate tactic." Bennett, a former Secretary of Education who is co-director of the conservative think tank Empower America, was joined at a news conference in Washington, D.C. by Democratic Senators Joe Lieberman and Sam Nunn. The group showed clips they deemed offensive on shows hosted by Sally Jessy Raphael, Maury Povich, Jerry Springer and Charles Perez. The Oprah Winfrey Show was singled out as an example of acceptable programming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BENNETT BLASTS TRASH TV | 10/26/1995 | See Source »

...that doesn't work, the old "lift and strike" proposal should be revived. That means "the coming redeployment should be a prelude to getting the U.N. troops out altogether," says Democratic Senator Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut. The Muslims would then be provided with heavy weapons, and air strikes would be employed while they learn to use them. Targets would include Serb military headquarters, munitions depots, arms factories, oil-storage facilities and bridges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A SOLUTION IN THREE PARTS | 6/12/1995 | See Source »

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