The Year in Culture Story aired: Tuesday, January 04, 2005
It was quite a year for pop culture and the pop culture wars.
Janet Jackson's wardrobe malfunction launched a year long values debate that culminated in the presidential election.
Gay marriage was in the headlines, but abysmal marriages were at the core of the wildly popular new television show "Desperate Housewives," a prime-time soap opera watched by almost as many viewers who tuned in to the year long trial of Scott Peterson convicted of murdering his pregnant wife and unborn child.
The trial increased sales of tabloid newspapers by 300,000 a paper and spiked TV ratings. At year's end the Washington Post did a terrific report on the high number of pregnant women who are violently killed. But no one paid much attention to that bigger picture.
What does 2005 hold? Donald Trump of "The Apprentice" might be soooo 2004 Fox has a new reality show called "Who's Your Daddy?," in which adoptees try to guess their birth father for a $100,000 prize!
And Here & Now's pop music critic Tim Riley also says huge changes are occurring in the music world...
Guests:
Here and Now's pop music reviewer Tim Riley and Boston Globe film critic Ty Burr.
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