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You Can't Say That on TV

What's worse? When the mob gatekeeps or some faceless exec?

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Katherine Dee
Feb 23, 2021
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An abridged version of this same piece was published in The American Mind yesterday. Read it here.

The late ‘80s through the ‘90s were a battleground for some of the fiercest media censorship debates of the 20th century. Why then does it feel like television in this era made more space for alternative voices from the purview of 2021? 

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