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Rethinking Aussie TV as soft power as US TV declines

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Dan Barrett
Apr 10, 2025
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I love American TV. Or, as I call it: TV. Since the early days of television, the US has been a global leader in terms of the volume of TV produced at a pretty high quality level.

It’s quite easy to detach yourself as a viewer from the idea that the TV shows are coming from a specific country with specific ideologies when there is so much artifice invol…

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