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Movin’ on Down: CMT addresses the Working Class
Country Music Television (CMT) aired a new sitcom last Friday, January 28th, to voluminous pre-media coverage—most of it positive. It is called, surprisingly, Working Class, and it stars blonde amazon Melissa Peterman as Carli Mitchell, a twice-divorced mom with three … Continue reading
Posted in Class and the Media, Contributors, Issues, Kathy M. Newman
Tagged CMT, Ed Asner, representations of class, sitcom, Working class, working-class culture
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