Oscar Winberg
historian, politics & media, book coming soon: Archie Bunker for President with @uncpress.bsky.social
- Reposted by Oscar WinbergThis month marks 55 years since the premiere of All in the Family. Historian @oscarwinberg.bsky.social, author of Archie Bunker for President: How One Television Show Remade American Politics (2025) explains the show's transformative impact on American television. 🗃️
- This is valid. It's also an argument for the political value of something like Fox News in driving issue salience. There's an infrastructure on the right that is missing on the left.
- The author disabled quotes.I do not understand why Dems (or someone) are not broadcasting wall to wall montages of ICE thugs abusing our neighbors, abducting children, terrorizing US citizens, invading homes w no warrant, or murdering mothers. This should be a massive exercise in ISSUE SALIENCE driven by Dem elites.
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- Reposted by Oscar WinbergIf you need a break from the news (and you do), listen to the latest episode of Unsung History with @oscarwinberg.bsky.social and learn who Archie Bunker endorsed in the 1972 presidential election.
- I can't believe Bari Weiss is making me post Aaron fuckin' Sorkin content but this seemed kind of obvious. youtu.be/wTjMqda19wk?...
- This. Always this. youtu.be/uq-gYOrU8bA?...
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- Heartwarming look at Rob Reiner's remarkable career @sepinwall.bsky.social My only note: the famous "a sock and a sock or a sock and a short"-scene was the result not of the excellent writers but of Reiner and O'Connor playing around with the characters.
- Reposted by Oscar WinbergThe cultural impact of Rob Reiner cannot be understated. Legend isn't big enough a word. It goes to 11. You can't handle the truth. As you wish. I'll have what she's having. I'm your number one fan. You guys wanna see a dead body? The very idea of a bucket list. The West Wing. All from his movies.
- I have been sitting with the heartbreaking news about Rob and Michele Reiner for a while now, struggling to find the right words. www.latimes.com/california/s...
- After a decade studying All in the Family, I have so many fond memories of Rob Reiner. He was, in many ways, a man defined by the work of his father, Carl Reiner, and a father figure, Norman Lear. And yet, he stood in nobody's shadow.
- I remember a comment he once made about how Stand by Me was the first thing he did that his father could not have done. That comment was full of love and respect.
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View full threadThe obituaries will describe him as an actor, director, philanthropist, and political activist. Most of all, I think he was a funny and decent man seeking to make the world a better place. That's how I'll remember him.
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Did you or anyone you know dance on Soul Train in the 1970s? Looking for folks to interview for some book research Thanks! #BlackSky - Today is publication day!! #ArchieBunkerforPresident is now officially out in the world with @uncpress.bsky.social and you can find a copy wherever you find books (and if they don't have one, ask them to order a copy for you!)!! uncpress.org/978146969090...
- Reposted by Oscar WinbergOlivia Nuzzi was doing journalism the right way. by Ezra Klein
- Really enjoyed this conversation with @herberthistory.bsky.social about all things Archie Bunker!!
- How did All In The Family change American politics? @oscarwinberg.bsky.social explains cc: @uncpress.bsky.social
- This is a smart @davekarpf.bsky.social write-up for all who, like me, have been looping these bars all day long: "Don't let them lead you astray, This congress does not speak for me, They're playing a dangerous game."
- I scribbled down all my shutdown-related intrusive thoughts and put them in a blog post. open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...
- Happening tomorrow!! Interested in TV, comedy, political activism and/or democracy? Join us online for a conversation with @emilynussbaum.bsky.social & Kim Phillips-Fein!
- Friends, the Center for Political History, Media, and Technology at Purdue is hosting an online book launch for #ArchieBunkerforPresident. Please, join me next week (Nov 5) for a conversation w/ @emilynussbaum.bsky.social, Kim Phillips-Fein & Sage Goodwin. Register here: tinyurl.com/ArchieBunker...
- Reposted by Oscar WinbergProofs? You can’t handle the proofs!
- Friends, the Center for Political History, Media, and Technology at Purdue is hosting an online book launch for #ArchieBunkerforPresident. Please, join me next week (Nov 5) for a conversation w/ @emilynussbaum.bsky.social, Kim Phillips-Fein & Sage Goodwin. Register here: tinyurl.com/ArchieBunker...
- Evergreen.
- Reposted by Oscar WinbergThe responses this post is getting, combined with the animating grievances of large swathes of politics, has convinced me we need a kind of society wide PSA about how Buying Things Is Optional. You don’t think video games should cost $100? Don’t buy the videogame. Buying Things Is Optional.
- LBJ was not wrong: "Some men want power simply to strut around the world and hear the tune of ‘Hail to the Chief.’ Others want it simply to build prestige, to collect antiques, and to buy pretty things. Well, I wanted power to give things to people, all sorts of things to all sorts of people."
- Reposted by Oscar WinbergIn Boston, every day is No Kings Day
- if a 84-yo Bob Dylan, voice broken and raw, belting out "I'm not the one you want, babe, I will only let you down" in front of a stadium audience is not the quintessential Dylan, at least it's damn close.
- neat waking up to find the feed overwhelmed by detailed posts about what apparently was a long sports game.
- *insert gif of walter cronkite removing glasses, nov. 22, 1963*
- 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...
- 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.
- 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.
- 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...
- This is dangerous. There's no other way to say it. Dangerous. Dangerous. Dangerous.
- My favorite cartoonist working today is @anntelnaes.bsky.social.
- 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?...
- 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.
- Don't tell RFK Junior.
- 📣 #Mpox is no longer a public health emergency of international concern.
- 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.
- 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.
- "Reality has a well-known liberal bias" used to be a laugh line.
