Ivey Janette McClelland
CBS cancelled the Smothers Brothers for criticizing President Nixon, LBJ,Vietnam and racists in the South.
They cancelled Captain Kangaroo because they didn't want mommy and daddy changing the channel to Today and GMA at 8 am. And they hated Mr. Green Jeans.
ABC neutered Dick Cavett because his guests were "too controversial". Especially after James Baldwin and Lester Maddox got into a violent argument.
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Ivey Janette McClelland
NBC made Rowan and Martin tone down Laugh-In because they didn't like the nonstop Nixon and Vietnam jokes. It got cancelled right before the Watergate hearings started in 1973.
CBS turned Good Times and The Jeffersons into stereotypical Black shows.
Richard Pryor told NBC to go fuck off because they kept censoring his jokes and skits.
Now CBS cancelled Colbert because he was "too liberal" and they viewed him as a "threat".
Fuck this shit.
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Ivey Janette McClelland
@c_merriweather CBS censored Pete Seeger when he was on the Smothers Brothers show.
Kinene⭐🐻
@IveyJanette Ah, yes, "Waist Deep In The Big Muddy."
Ivey Janette McClelland
And Ed Sullivan censored Elvis. They only showed him from the waist up.
When he was on the Steve Allen Show,they showed his entire body,even though Elvis was singing to a bronze hound dog prop(typical Allen comedy gags).
The Stones and the Doors were ordered by Sullivan and CBS to "change the lyrics for a family audience" when they performed.
When the Doors and The Who were on the Smothers Brothers show,they pissed off censors.
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Ivey Janette McClelland
@phwolfe940 @Barbramon1 And it's always been this way.
Betty White told NBC to fuck off back in the 50's when she hired Arthur Duncan as a regular on her daytime talk show. They didn't want to "offend" sponsors and Southern affiliates because Duncan was Black. Duncan stayed on the show. It got cancelled.
Duncan would later break the color barrier on the Lawrence Welk Show.
Peggy Heinkel-Wolfe
I also am old enough but it was good for the reminder
Media for profit is always vulnerable
People’s media can and is stepping into the gap
Barbara Monaco
@IveyJanette I am old enough to remember all of these cancellations very clearly. It's shocking, but not surprising given the circumstances, that we are seeing this again.
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