Day Tripping: July 27

Media Marvels

By U.S. State Department — Public Domain

The TV sitcom format of the nineteen-seventies was shaped in large part by this man who was born this day in 1922. For most of his 99 years, Norman Lear has been a major figure in television’s social conscience.

“We just may be the most well-informed, yet least self-aware, people in history.”