Senior Fellow Neal Gabler the Norman Lear Center Form

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60 Minutes rewind Norman Lear has changed the face of Television until 1971 he was a very successful if largely unheralded producer writer in Hollywood but then he burst upon the public Consciousness when he took on bigotry with his All in the Family a year later sanfred and Son became television's first all black series since then there have been six more leer shows each dealing in controversy of one kind or another and all but one of them still on the air ma Good Times The Jeffersons the dumplings one day at a time the ratings tell us that at least 120 million Americans watch Norman leer shows every week now one might surmise that all that success would satisfy Norman leer and it does except except that he is suing all three networks and the National Association of broadcasters for $10 million they're violating his freedom of speech he claims more about that later and besides he is almost generated a fourth network with his latest hit Mary Hartman Mary H Hartman more of that later to