Topic - Norman Lear

Lear lamented the number of advertisements in so many shows, including his own, which he said convey the message "you are what you own, you are what you drink, you are what you wear, you are what you smell, you are what you consume."

Norman Lear and me: TV producer was also a reasonable voice on American political scene →

“I never thought of the shows as groundbreaking,” Lear told the Harvard Business Review in 2014, “because every American understood so easily what they were all about.

How Norman Lear changed television -- and with it American life -- in the 1970s →