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Oscar Winberg

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Oscar Winberg @oscarwinberg.bsky.social · May 2

Archie Bunker for President is now available for pre-order on the UNC Press site!!

Pre-ordering is the best way of support a book so please consider heading over to the @uncpress.bsky.social site and make sure to use the code 01SOCIAL30 at checkout to save 30%!!

Book cover of Archie Bunker for President: How One Television Show Remade American Politics by Oscar Winberg.

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Oscar Winberg @oscarwinberg.bsky.social · 7h

neat waking up to find the feed overwhelmed by detailed posts about what apparently was a long sports game.

Oscar Winberg @oscarwinberg.bsky.social · 8d

*insert gif of walter cronkite removing glasses, nov. 22, 1963*

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 8d

Bari Weiss is set to be named the editor in chief of CBS News, the New York Post reports

Paramount Skydance is poised to name Bari Weiss as editor in chief of CBS News in the coming days — giving the hard-charging journalist unusual clout to revamp the struggling network as it also acquires her scrappy news site the Free Press, The Post has learned.

Weiss — a 41-year-old former New York Times opinion writer who has built the Free Press into a buzzworthy site with a contrarian bent — is expected to be named to the top post in a Monday announcement, although the talks are in flux and the timing could change, a source close to the situation said.

Oscar Winberg @oscarwinberg.bsky.social · 16d

Best of luck with your new adventure, Thomas!!

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Oscar Winberg @oscarwinberg.bsky.social · 16d

Congratulations!!

Oscar Winberg @oscarwinberg.bsky.social · 17d

And if you want to know more about Nixon's obsessions with television entertainment, remember to pre-order Archie Bunker for President: How One Television Show Remade American Politics from @uncpress.bsky.social: uncpress.org/978146969090...

Archie Bunker for President

Delving into the intersection of television entertainment and American politics during the 1970s, focusing on the sitcom All in the Family, this book explore...

uncpress.org

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Oscar Winberg @oscarwinberg.bsky.social · 17d

Appreciating these developments, Sage Goodwin & I argue in @theconversation.com, is key to understanding why Kimmel's brief suspension won't be the last attack on television's rights to criticize the president.

Even as Jimmy Kimmel returns to the airwaves, TV networks remain more vulnerable to political pressure than ever before

President Nixon tried and failed to cancel ‘The Dick Cavett Show.’ Since then, deregulation and consolidation have made media conglomerates more willing to accommodate those in power.

theconversation.com

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Oscar Winberg @oscarwinberg.bsky.social · 17d

Chuck Colson, the little devil on Nixon's shoulder, assured him "we've been trying to [screw him]." But neither Colson nor Nixon could bend the networks to their will.

Today, decades of declining ratings, deregulation & consolidation, and partisan attacks on the media have changed the calculus.

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Oscar Winberg @oscarwinberg.bsky.social · 17d

Trump is not the first president eager to have an ABC talk show host cancelled. Back in the early 1970s, Nixon was fuming over Dick Cavett, asking his aides "is there any way we can screw him?"

theconversation.com/even-as-jimm...

Even as Jimmy Kimmel returns to the airwaves, TV networks remain more vulnerable to political pressure than ever before

President Nixon tried and failed to cancel ‘The Dick Cavett Show.’ Since then, deregulation and consolidation have made media conglomerates more willing to accommodate those in power.

theconversation.com

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Oscar Winberg @oscarwinberg.bsky.social · 25d

(re)read It Can't Happen Here this spring, it hits real hard in 2025.

Oscar Winberg @oscarwinberg.bsky.social · 25d

Fair! It's only September, though, so no pressure.

Oscar Winberg @oscarwinberg.bsky.social · 25d

Amazing! I would love to see the syllabus for the History of Reality TV course!!

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Oscar Winberg @oscarwinberg.bsky.social · 29d

This is dangerous. There's no other way to say it. Dangerous. Dangerous. Dangerous.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29d

EARHARDT: We have radicals on the right as well. How do we fix this country?

TRUMP: I'll tell you something that's gonna get me in trouble but I couldn't care less. The radicals on the right oftentimes are radical because they don't want to see crime. The radicals on the left are the problem.

Oscar Winberg @oscarwinberg.bsky.social · Sep 11

Happy Birthday, Paul!! Hope ATL Airport does not take up the entire day (although from the looks of it it's taking up all morning).

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Oscar Winberg @oscarwinberg.bsky.social · Sep 10

My favorite cartoonist working today is @anntelnaes.bsky.social.

Telnaes cartoon depicting Trump's birthday doodle to Epstein of a naked woman's torso with his own signature as pubes. Telnaes has added the severed limbs of blindfolded lady justice behind the torso.

Oscar Winberg @oscarwinberg.bsky.social · Sep 9

Oliver North and Fawn Hall is in the news again which is the perfect excuse to re-post this vid I use to teach Iran-Contra.

youtu.be/lFV1uT-ihDo?...

American Dad! - ollie north

YouTube video by Mr. Divery

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Oscar Winberg @oscarwinberg.bsky.social · Sep 9

started rewatching The Sopranos for the first time since the original run and never really appreciated 1) how much of a middle-aged dad show it actually is, 2) how most everybody in the show is a fucking loser, and 3) how endlessly charming James Gandolfini was.

Oscar Winberg @oscarwinberg.bsky.social · Sep 5

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Oscar Winberg @oscarwinberg.bsky.social · Sep 5

I'm not saying that was the Golden Era of TV news, I'm saying we are now in the Golden Shower Era of TV news.

It's humiliating, it stinks, and it's icky-sticky.

Oscar Winberg @oscarwinberg.bsky.social · Sep 5

Don't tell RFK Junior.

WHO @who.int · Sep 5

📣 #Mpox is no longer a public health emergency of international concern.

Oscar Winberg @oscarwinberg.bsky.social · Sep 5

I'm not saying that was the Golden Era of TV news, I'm saying we are now in the Golden Shower Era of TV news.

It's humiliating, it stinks, and it's icky-sticky.

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Oscar Winberg @oscarwinberg.bsky.social · Sep 5

for what it's worth, when CBS News was accused of "deceptively editing" interviews in the 1970s Frank Stanton stood up for news department and even risked facing a jail cell for refusing a congressional subpoena.

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · Sep 5

New: CBS News has changed its interview format in reaction to complaints from DHS. According to a statement from a network spokesperson, Face The Nation will now only broadcast live or live to tape interviews

In response to audience feedback over the past week, we have implemented a new policy for greater transparency in our interviews. FACE THE NATION will now only broadcast live or live-to-tape interviews (subject to national security or legal restrictions). This extra measure means the television audience will see the full, unedited interview on CBS and we will continue our practice of posting full transcripts and the unedited video online.

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Oscar Winberg @oscarwinberg.bsky.social · Sep 5

"Reality has a well-known liberal bias" used to be a laugh line.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 5

CNN: When the jobs report comes out, are you going to believe the numbers?

REP. RANDY FINE: Um, I'm going to look at the numbers. Look, the people who put these numbers together are human & fallible and make mistakes

C: It wasn't that they make mistakes

F: Numbers always tend to benefit the left

Oscar Winberg @oscarwinberg.bsky.social · Sep 3

To be clear, Agnew would say that to Trump and his cronies not to @jayrosen.bsky.social.

Oscar Winberg @oscarwinberg.bsky.social · Sep 3

Even Spiro Agnew would be like "whoa, that's going a little far, my dude..." and Agnew was such a dick that his name was literally an anagram for grow a penis.

Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · Sep 3

Two things I am following with a sense of foreboding.

1.) The ombudsman forced upon CBS News. See Brian Stelter: view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/175...

2.) Dershowitz knocking on the Times vs. Sullivan door after losing his defamation case. See: www.cnn.com/2025/08/29/b...

Oscar Winberg @oscarwinberg.bsky.social · Sep 1

Looking forward to this one!

Dr. Vaughn Joy @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social · Aug 28

Everything is terrible right now in general, but in personal good news, my book has a cover and I'm so excited to share it!!!

Selling Out Santa is about Hollywood's manipulation of the Christmas holiday for socially conservative ends in the early Cold War 🗃️
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/selling-ou...

A book cover from De Gruyter. A faded American flag's red and white stripes sets the background. In the foreground are three Christmas baubles: a darker red ball is in front coming in from the left, a white ball is behind it, and a light navy blue ball hangs behind that. White text reads the title: Selling out Santa Hollywood Christmas Films in the Age of McCarthy. On the blue ball white text reads Vaughn Joy and the series name pop culture in context

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Oscar Winberg @oscarwinberg.bsky.social · Aug 26

Looks like an amazing class! Thank you for sharing the syllabus 🙏