Northern Exposure Season 1 Mini Review

Started a show from 1990 to 1995 called Northern Exposure.  I'm partway through the first season of hour-long episodes but I'm noticing a trend.  The second episode had a subplot involving 'insulting' [informing a radio audience of the perversions of] a poet named Walt Whitman.  Something to the effect of 'we need heroes so we shouldn't make their faults known' became the 'moral' of the story.  This is said by a guy who essentially owns a significant part of Alaska, mind you.  Not some noname guy.  He took his employee, a radio host, off the air [and threw him through a plate glass window] for speaking the truth and then spouts that nonsense.  Subsequent episodes put a positive spin on suicide for an old man and concluded an episode surrounding a wedding with a very touching 'we'll just live like we're married and raise this baby but we'll just not marry' [!].  The couple are 63 [the man] and 18 [the woman] by the way.  It's not a preachy show but I'm astounded by how much degeneracy they're promoting.  It's just more obvious now, but not new.