Oscar Winberg
oscarwinberg.bsky.social
Oscar Winberg
@oscarwinberg.bsky.social
historian, politics & media, book coming soon: Archie Bunker for President with @uncpress.bsky.social
Published last week: Archie Bunker for President: How One Television Show Remade American Politics.

For anybody interested in media, politics, and how television remade political campaigns and institutions in its image.

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Archie Bunker for President
Delving into the intersection of television entertainment and American politics during the 1970s, focusing on the sitcom All in the Family, this book explore...
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November 26, 2025 at 11:01 PM
In my head I just read it in Lyndon's voice 😂
November 24, 2025 at 7:12 PM
LBJ?
November 24, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Congratulations, turns out we're publication day twins!!
November 18, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Thank you! Publication date isn't until November 18, so the code should still be good for a couple of weeks.
October 23, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Best of luck with your new adventure, Thomas!!
September 25, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Congratulations!!
September 24, 2025 at 6:02 PM
And if you want to know more about Nixon's obsessions with television entertainment, remember to pre-order Archie Bunker for President: How One Television Show Remade American Politics from @uncpress.bsky.social: uncpress.org/978146969090...
Archie Bunker for President
Delving into the intersection of television entertainment and American politics during the 1970s, focusing on the sitcom All in the Family, this book explore...
uncpress.org
September 23, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Appreciating these developments, Sage Goodwin & I argue in @theconversation.com, is key to understanding why Kimmel's brief suspension won't be the last attack on television's rights to criticize the president.
Even as Jimmy Kimmel returns to the airwaves, TV networks remain more vulnerable to political pressure than ever before
President Nixon tried and failed to cancel ‘The Dick Cavett Show.’ Since then, deregulation and consolidation have made media conglomerates more willing to accommodate those in power.
theconversation.com
September 23, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Chuck Colson, the little devil on Nixon's shoulder, assured him "we've been trying to [screw him]." But neither Colson nor Nixon could bend the networks to their will.

Today, decades of declining ratings, deregulation & consolidation, and partisan attacks on the media have changed the calculus.
September 23, 2025 at 7:18 PM