There's a TV show that reruns on truTV called "Adam Ruins Everything" in which Adam Conover "ruins" some popular theory by debunking any myths about it that can be ridiculed. Meanwhile, he bores the audience with over-explanation.
I'm reminded of that TV show by the promotions by PBS NewsHour and C-Span of Ken Burns' upcoming series called Country Music, a film by ken Burns.
In both the PBS "news" segment and the C-Span interview Burns goes directly to the feminist movement with remarks about how liberated Loretta Lynn was back in the day.
My reaction, as someone who grew up listening to that old country music, is that it looks like an east coast progressive going out into the sticks to do a documentary about those weird people who inhabit that wilderness out there. The documentary isn't meant for country music fans, it's meant to entertain the progressives on the coast -- like a wildlife show, or maybe more like Adam Ruins Country Music.
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5:07 AM 9/14/2019
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