Oscar Winberg
@oscarwinberg.bsky.social
historian, politics & media, book coming soon: Archie Bunker for President with @uncpress.bsky.social
Thank you! Publication date isn't until November 18, so the code should still be good for a couple of weeks.
October 23, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Thank you! Publication date isn't until November 18, so the code should still be good for a couple of weeks.
Best of luck with your new adventure, Thomas!!
September 25, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Best of luck with your new adventure, Thomas!!
Congratulations!!
September 24, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Congratulations!!
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
September 23, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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...
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
September 23, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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.
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.
Today, decades of declining ratings, deregulation & consolidation, and partisan attacks on the media have changed the calculus.
September 23, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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.
Today, decades of declining ratings, deregulation & consolidation, and partisan attacks on the media have changed the calculus.
(re)read It Can't Happen Here this spring, it hits real hard in 2025.
September 16, 2025 at 10:17 AM
(re)read It Can't Happen Here this spring, it hits real hard in 2025.
Fair! It's only September, though, so no pressure.
September 15, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Fair! It's only September, though, so no pressure.
Amazing! I would love to see the syllabus for the History of Reality TV course!!
September 15, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Amazing! I would love to see the syllabus for the History of Reality TV course!!
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).
September 11, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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).