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Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-02-12

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9780656399093

Excerpt from Age Stereotyping and Television: Hearing Before the Select Committee on Aging, House of Representatives, Ninety-Fifth Congress, First Session, September 8, 1977 Progress has been made in television. But I was struck in one of our earlier committee hearings, on Active Americans Over 65, that television role models are still inadequate. One of the witnesses in that earlier hearing was Will Geer, better known as Grandpa Walton. Grandpa Walton is everybody's ideal of a grandfather wise, humorous, loving, accepted. Perfect. And that is a problem in itself: Grandpa Walton is perfect, and who can live up to that ideal? Will Geer, on the other hand, was a real, live person who, in a ten-minute presentation before the Committee, created a more desireable, exciting, human and real model than Grandpa Walton could ever hope to match. Grandpa Walton is an improved role model in television programs, but he still leaves room for more improvement. We fear we cannot be that good, and we fear our own limitations which we acquire as we age. Balanced role models are the goal of this Committee hearing. What progress has been made by the television industry is to be commended; what progress remains is to be encouraged. We should all remember this the next time we feel that panic associated with growing old in America. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.