http://archive2.mrc.org/taxonomy/term/4214/all en http://archive2.mrc.org/bozells-column/when-less-more-tv <div class="field field-type-nodereference field-field-source"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="field-label-inline-first"> By</div> <a href="/author/l-brent-bozell-iii">L. Brent Bozell III</a> </div> </div> </div> <p><span class="normal">Try to imagine what would be the reaction of today's typical twenty- or thirtysomething TV scriptwriter were he suddenly ordered to make his writing conform to the broadcast standards of 1965. My guess is that he'd submit a blank piece of paper, then resign. </span> </p> <p><span class="normal">Most scriptwriters today could never deliver the quality of product regularly produced by the likes of Carl Reiner, Jackie Gleason, and all those other writers working in an industry with so many creative limits forty years ago. </span> </p><p><a href="http://archive2.mrc.org/bozells-column/when-less-more-tv" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Bozell's Column News Analysis Division couldnt greatest series Wed, 08 May 2002 04:00:00 +0000 3963 at http://archive2.mrc.org