Too Much TV: Your TV Talking Points For Thursday, November 21st, 2024

Some thoughts about cable TV and populism

Here's everything you need to know about the world of television for Thursday, November 21st, 2024:

PRODUCTION NOTES
Tonight's newsletter is running late, because among other things, I was on the Twin Cities legendary AM talker WCCO, speaking with Jason DeRusha about Comcast shedding most of its cable networks. He also brought up this recent piece in which I recommended CNN adapt a more populist bent, because hating the Man is a non-partisan issue:

Over the past few years, focus group after focus group has found that a large number of Americans struggle with the same issues. They feel abandoned. Good-paying manufacturing jobs have left the country. And that impacts workers in every place from the deep rural south to the biggest urban cities. Local stores (with local jobs) have been swallowed up by large hedge fund-driven semi-monopolies.

It feels as if every aspect of America - all the important community institutions that used to bind us together - are now just hallowed-out piggy banks t…