Norman Lear
Norman Lear
Norman Milton Lear is an American television writer and producer who produced such 1970s sitcoms as All in the Family, Sanford and Son, One Day at a Time, The Jeffersons, Good Times, and Maude. As a political activist, he founded the advocacy organization People for the American Way in 1981 and has supported First Amendment rights and progressive causes...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Producer
Date of Birth27 July 1922
CityNew Haven, CT
CountryUnited States of America
Even when they don't know who Nixon was, these shows will continue to play.
At great, great remove sit the head of General Electric, the head of News Corp, the head of Viacom, or the head of this giant international corporation that wants these ratings.
We just had a wonderful time. It was a very different time in our culture, generally.
Life goes on pretty much the same way. I've been working on a couple of films on the side. You may see some more. You may even see another television show.
But you know, my dad called me the laziest white kid he ever met. When I screamed back at him that he was putting down a race of people to call me lazy, his answer was that's not what he was doing, and that I was also the dumbest white kid he ever met.
In the area we're discussing, leadership begins on Madison Avenue, on the desks and in the offices of people who spend hundreds of millions of dollars buying what will get them ratings.
In this nation, leadership is dollars.
I think the greater responsibility, in terms of morality, is where leadership begins.
Granted, the writers, directors, producers, and that community make a great deal of money. But they might be choosing to do a whole lot of other things for the living they make.
TV that people will never see, that giant international corporations will never touch, will never pay your salary.
There was no real controversy with All In The Family. That came from the people on the business end.
The trafficking of sex and violence is comes after the demand for ratings.