Time Warner’s Growing Complacency
Full disclosure: I’m a huge fan of Time Warner Entertainment. I grew up watching Hanna-Barbera cartoons on the USA Cartoon Express every evening and waking up early to watch them every Saturday morning. I’ve been a Superman and DC Comics fan since I was a little kid watching Superfriends and reruns of the 60s Batman series and the 70s Wonder Woman series every week. I got used to Turner Time on Superstation WTBS every afternoon and watched the USA Cartoon Express, which was filled with old-school Hanna-Barbera shows, every evening and Sunday morning. The animated creations of Termite Terrace, MGM, Fleischer, and Hanna-Barbera are ingrained in my DNA, and my modern tastes for animation grew because of the 90s revival of Warner Bros Animation, the brief rebirth of Hanna-Barbera, and the emergence of Cartoon Network. That shield has brought a lot of good things to me over the years. Like I said, I’m a fan. Been a fan for as long as I can remember. Warner Bros, DC Comics, and