Rod Serling Controversy

Serling faced many challenges from the advertisers and censors including them overpowering his shows, and taking out so much of them that barely any of the original was left. “Whittled down to avoid controversy until little of the original context still existed…(p 5-6)” With Rod Serling’s different way of creating shows, the advertisers and censors did not know what to think of it. They thought that the shows would attract too much controversy, especially the one about Emmett Till’s murder.Rod decided to make his own science fiction show because he wanted and needed his own way to express his very mixed up feelings. “Using science fiction to address his anger and confusion (p7).” All the sponsors and advertisers were frustrating him to the