The average Joe saves the day
April 28, 2009
“Really, in the last six to nine months you started to see a shift in priorities in our culture with the movies, television and music audience. We have less tolerance at this point for the wasteful extravagance we’re used to seeing on
Entertainment Tonight
,” said Richard Verrone, history expert on popular culture and 20th-century America at Texas Tech University. “I absolutely see a trend that has happened with a toning down of extravagance.”