Posted on 03/17/2017 5:01:55 AM PDT by Kaslin
Just as the liberal "news" media have doubled down on fierce liberal activism since President Trump's inauguration, Hollywood is pushing the leftist agenda. Variety celebrates the crusade -- that is what this is -- in an article headlined "TV Gets Woke: How Scripted Series Are Confronting Social Issues Like Never Before."
It is not that Hollywood should be political; it is that the industry must be political. Even the sitcoms need to be political. "Social media is in a constant conversation about things," proclaimed NBC Entertainment President Jennifer Salke. "It doesn't feel authentic to not address what's going on in the world and what people are really talking about. I think that's a sweet spot for comedy in general."
She points to "The Carmichael Show" on NBC, which, like so many series advancing left-wing causes, is not a hit but features plots about hot topics like gentrification. A character defined it saying: "Gentrification is essentially when developers look at a neighborhood the way Richard Gere looked at Julia Roberts in 'Pretty Woman.' You know, you see past all the flaws of the past. You see a perfect spot for a Starbucks or an Ethiopian restaurant run by non-Ethiopians."
This is what John Q. Public wants when he wants to watch TV? (Did we just say "he"?)
The new CBS show "Superior Donuts" features one episode plot wherein the neighborhood dry-cleaning shop owned by an Iraqi-American (played by Muslim comedian Maz Jobrani) is vandalized with graffiti that says, "Arabs Go Home." Naturally, another character says to Jobrani's character, "I'm going to miss you when America is great again."
ABC's "Black-ish" drew liberal praise for a January episode in which the black characters confronted the Trump victory. "We didn't just want to be a family comedy show," Anthony Anderson, one of the show's stars, explained. "We wanted to be substantive and have a conscience and have something to say without beating you over the head with that message."
That depends on how you define "beating you over the head." Decide for yourself. During the episode, when a white woman says she voted for Trump, she is shamed for hating women. She fights back by suggesting that since blacks wouldn't vote for Dr. Ben Carson just based on race, she wouldn't vote for Hillary Clinton. The black characters slam Carson, saying, "Dude is a weirdo," and "Is he even black?" A character played by Wanda Sykes adds, "As long as she knows that a vote for Trump is a vote for racism!" When the Trump voter protests saying, "I have black friends!" the blacks collectively howl. One hectors, "It's racist to say that!"
The lectures come in the dramas, too. Fox has a new drama coming soon called "Shots Fired," inspired by the Trayvon Martin shooting and the Black Lives Matter movement. Co-creators Reggie Bythewood and Gina Prince-Bythewood were recruited by Fox after the Ferguson riots. "It's not enough to preach to the choir," Gina Prince-Bythewood told Time magazine. "You have to speak to everybody."
She told Variety: "these things were fueling us in wanting to say something to the world, and how we could use our art as a weapon to speak on this. ... One of the mantras we have is that anyone can portray reality, but an artist portrays what reality should be."
Their show was filmed before the election, and since then, "there's been a 180-degree change," says Prince-Bythewood. "Now the Dept. of Justice is absolutely under siege under this new administration. Will it even have the ability or the desire to look into cases of injustice?"
They have consulted with experts like former President Obama's attorney general Eric Holder and, for supposed balance, former New York Police Department Commissioner Ray Kelly. But there will be no balance. As seen on "Black-ish," they may have a marginally sympathetic white character to offer some sign that they've listened before filming. But that nagging ideological temptation to use your art as a weapon is sure to come barging through the TV again and again. And again.
It’s a story about a product I don’t buy or use.
They are not in it to create conversation. They are using the Overton Window method to sink our country into sheer hedonism and revolting inhumanity. They are winning it too. The amount of money we pay entertainers, as opposed to our military tells you we would rather be plugged in instead of free.
Muzzie comedian? Who knew?
No kidding... his infidel beheading bit must be hilarious.
Uh huh. They would like us to believe that everybody is as obsessed with each day's headlines and battles and grievances as the rioters and celebrities and talking heads, when in fact most people don't know the name of their Senator, how many Justices are (or should be) on the Supreme Court, etc.
In fact, they would like to use that false premise as a reason to expand their indoctrination campaign.
Watch me not watch.
Just so. Is it a ‘social issue’ if it’s a concept invented out of whole cloth?
There you go. Goebbels smiles in hell.
Communist propaganda. That’s all it is, indoctrination
Hey!
I don’t watch their trash TV.
I like and watch one new show: Chicago Justice.
If it goes sideways, I’ll stop.
My remote goes from OANN to FBN to FNC to MeTV (for Perry Mason) and sometimes to C-SPAN.
That’s about it.
-——”TV Gets Woke: How Scripted Series Are Confronting Social Issues Like Never Before.”——
Translation: Superfluous queers are inflicted as a tertiary story line
The new Racism is good. The mission of BLM was to destroy America. Travon Martin died as he was attempting murder.
For the record:
Very good British, Canadian, Australian TV are abundantly available on NetFlix and Amazon. There are also very good Korean and Taiwanese programs available with subtitles.
There are also some not so good to very bad foreign programs there as well but they exist world wide.
TV has not been worth watching for a long time. If a show is not morally repulsive, then it’s at least boring.
I remember when television programs were apolitical entertainment, and MTV was about music videos.
Hollywood’s been pushing liberal positions for decades.
We’ve heard them. We’ve stopped watching. We don’t go to ‘lecture’ films’. We sit out their offensive award shows. Isn’t that enough? Are they deaf? Or just pushy jerks?
OK Hollywood - ramp up the lectures - wag your whorish well-manicured fingers at us. Highlight “Charlie Sheen morals” to our children... Yeah, ramp it up Hollywood... stay true to form. Maybe we don’t hate you enough already...
Where were they for 8 years when ObamBam was tearing the country apart?
Heads firmly in the sand.
F-ing Hypocrites.
Hollywood is supported by the free choices of consumers. The consumers can make other choices.
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