Talk:Golden Age of Television

message: I posted you a clear message that the so-called unsourced material was sourced in the Wiki bio of the person quoted, and previously put (see) after the link to the bio. Where do they get people with such low IQs to give edit privileges to? Do you want material reptitiously put into this article to satisfy yourself? What a loser. I'll do it, but I hope the higher management tags you for this.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.29.203.76 (talk) 19:57, 10 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Stop your fake edit war

message: The idea that the "golden age of television" in the US was in the 1950's and 1960's is somewhat dubious. For every "Playhouse 90" and "Twilight Zone" there were 2 wrestling shows and 3 middle-brow westerns. In general one could make the argument that quality of the average drama on television is better now that it has ever been.  --Francis Burdett 01:39, 22 June 2006 (UT
: I agree, this whole article feels very POV-ish, particularly since there are no references to external articles referring to this period of time as the "Golden Age". Jeff schiller 12:18, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
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message: Every day, the papers publish articles explaining why/how we live in the Golden Age of Television. 
Most cultural commentators during the 50's wrote that their shows were mostly trash and rightfully so . The output consisted mostly of game shows and soap operas, designed around around selling washing powder in the ad-break. Middle class people with taste preferred radio plays, theater, books and above all, the cinema. The few good shows from that era, like the 'anthologies', are vastly outweighed in quantity by the current production of quality shows.
If you read the papers or talk to people on the street, there is a strong belief that tv is supplanting both movies and novels as the best medium for story-telling. Shows like The Wire are regularly compared to Dickens and Dostoevsky. 
These are some newspaper articles recentey published in just the last 4 days (quick Google search) which take for granted the notion our current era is the 'Golden Age of Television'.
http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/box-seat/how-tv-got-so-good-20130320-2gfd7.html
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/03/its-the-golden-age-of-tv-but-why-exactly/274165/
http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/features/golden-age-tv-aspires-to-be-film-not-vice-versa-rfure.php
Shouldn't there at-least be a mention that 90% of the public thinks the current age is the Golden Age of Television, not the fifties?  
Mshara1 (talk) 11:37, 24 March 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't have a dog in the hunt about whether the current era should be called either a or the Golden Age of Television, but I do have concerns that this article does not do enough to firmly establish through extensive secondary sources that the consensus of historical scholarship agrees that the era the article covers is indeed the golden age. There really should be at least one whole section early in the article that explains who considers this era the Golden Age, why they consider it so, and for how long. Also, DO NOT CALL PEOPLE IDIOTS. Comment on the edit, not the editor. Last, remember to sign your posts with four atildas. Mmyers1976 (talk) 19:01, 9 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Isn't the current era the Golden Age of Televison?

message: How can something be "dubious" when it is recognized by the Los Angeles Times, the U.S. Museum of Broadcasting, and the Encyclopedia Britannica?  
The Golden Age of Television is an established and recognized fact.  
C.P.Taft (talk) 05:51, 14 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: An established and recognized fact

message: This article looks like a piece of nostalgia written by people of a certain age. It is lacking in objectivity. AshbyJnr 23:42, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Historically accurate article

message: # South Africa needs to be wiped out because its in the 1970s and this article coverage is until 1961. It's way off topic
# Generally, the whole Worldwide section really should be wiped out to concentrate on the United States 1st.
# The introduction of this article puts the whole Worldwide section out of context.
# Move the citations out of introduction. The golden age of television in the United States occurred because of the explosion in the sales of television that went through the roof in 1948 and continued on an extremely strong pace. 66.234.33.8 (talk) 13:38, 30 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Multiple suggestions

message: Tons of sources available. 66.234.33.8 (talk) 15:16, 30 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Further reading

message: As even a cursory Google search instantly reveals, the current era —beginning circa Oz— is also very regularly referred to as "TV's golden age", in the specific context of shows like The Sopranos, The Wire, Six Feet Under, Mad Men, Breaking Bad, Carnivàle, Deadwood, Lost, BSG, Firefly, The Office, Curb Your Enthusiasm etc, etc, etc. Some commentators are going so far as to view contemporary TV as the new cultural locus of what used to be the classic European novel. It's rather peculiar and telling that none of this is mentioned anywhere in this article. —87.78.5.185 (talk) 14:47, 20 August 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you for bringing up the topic.  Wikipedia reports what is covered in reliable sources, which means that you are welcome to suggest changes to the page as long as you can support what you say.  Most television scholars (yes, such a thing exists) use "Golden Age" to refer to an earlier point in television history.  Andrew327 05:49, 25 March 2013 (UTC)

text: If this is so biased, why have the networks occasionally broadcast [corrected your spelling: NO "ed", there's no 'casted' past participle, dude!] retro-golden age teleplays such as Death of a Salesman in 1966 and 1985? These are the kinds of shows that came from the golden age. Sure, the article seems overly nostalgic, and as User:Francis Burdett pointed out "For every "Playhouse 90" and "Twilight Zone" there were 2 wrestling shows and 3 middle-brow westerns." But I still wouldn't go so far as to write off the whole article, and even with shows like The Sopranos, Mad Men, Breaking Bad, etc., I reject the notion the golden age is now. ---------User:DanTD (talk)  14:35, 31 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  What about the current era? 

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message: This article reads too much as a timelime of US TV in the 1950s, details of the evolution of programming, with no text that establishes who considered(s) this period the Golden Age and why, when this period was first called the Golden Age, etc. There should be an "Origin of the term" section right at the beginning of this article that provides that information. See the "Origin of the term" section from Silver Age of comic books for an example of what that should look like. Mmyers1976 (talk) 20:38, 12 August 2016 (UTC)
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