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Washington Compost: Shut down all police movies and TV shows. Now.
Washington Compost ^ | June 4, 2020 | Alyssa Rosenberg

Posted on 06/04/2020 7:48:09 PM PDT by EdnaMode

Like many other industries, entertainment companies have issued statements of support for the protests against racism and police brutality now filling America’s streets. But there’s something Hollywood can do to put its money where its social media posts are: immediately halt production on cop shows and movies and rethink the stories it tells about policing in America.

For a century, Hollywood has been collaborating with police departments, telling stories that whitewash police shootings and valorizing an action-hero style of policing over the harder, less dramatic work of building relationships with the communities cops are meant to serve and protect. There’s a reason for that beyond a reactionary streak hiding below the industry’s surface liberalism. Purely from a dramatic perspective, crime makes a story seem consequential, investigating crime generates action, and solving crime provides for a morally and emotionally satisfying conclusion.

The result is an addiction to stories that portray police departments as more effective than they actually are; crime as more prevalent than it actually is; and police use of force as consistently justified. There are always gaps between reality and fiction, but given what policing in America has too often become, Hollywood’s version of it looks less like fantasy and more like complicity.

There’s no question that it would be costly for networks and studios to walk away from the police genre entirely. Canceling Dick Wolf’s “Chicago” franchise of shows would wipe out an entire night of NBC’s prime-time programming; dropping “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” and a planned spinoff would cut even further into the lineup.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: alyssarosenberg; crimeshows; tv; washingtoncompost; washingtonpost
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To: Political Junkie Too

Virtue signaling. On the right, it’s about being accepted.

Indeed. For DECADES there have been and remain to this day far too many RINO’s still hoping beyond hope that the Libs will finally love them if they capitulate to them just one more time.

Romney and W are two typical examples.

Totally destroyed by the left. Yet, they try and try and try to Virtue Signal to those that destroyed them by taking positions against Strong Conservative Patriots hoping beyond hope to gain their favor only to eventually be discarded when their pathetic pandering is no longer needed.


21 posted on 06/04/2020 8:02:08 PM PDT by ocrp1982
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To: EdnaMode

Wait, Hollywood for decades has claimed that movies do not impact any form of action.


22 posted on 06/04/2020 8:02:08 PM PDT by Lockbox
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To: Southside_Chicago_Republican

Youse guys are BAD.

She’s no Lisa Page...


23 posted on 06/04/2020 8:02:43 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Paladin2

Why would anyone mug her? Her smile is enough to scare away Demons.

Nobody is going near that face which seems to have had an intimate night or more with a moving freight train.


24 posted on 06/04/2020 8:03:19 PM PDT by Radix (Natural Born Citizens have Citizen parents)
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To: Paladin2
No, but her mug just mugged this thread 😱
25 posted on 06/04/2020 8:03:27 PM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: EdnaMode

So she’s saying Hollywood is the problem? That’s a new take for the left.


26 posted on 06/04/2020 8:03:56 PM PDT by The Accused
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To: Paladin2

Yikes!


27 posted on 06/04/2020 8:04:29 PM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: EdnaMode; All

I keep thinking that there might possibly be ONE person at “THE WASHINGTON COM-post”, who is NOT an empty-head, a HATER, STUPID, a BIGOT and/or simply a FOOL of the 1st Class.

OBVIOUSLY, IF Ms. Rosenberg is typical of the rest of the staff, there are NONE there.

Yours, TMN78247


28 posted on 06/04/2020 8:04:32 PM PDT by TMN78247 ("VICTORY or DEATH", William Barrett Travis, LtCol, comdt., Fortress of the Alamo, Bejar, F'by 241836)
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To: EdnaMode
stories that portray police departments as more effective than they actually are; crime as more prevalent than it actually is; and police use of force as consistently justified.

Yeah, that's what viewers want... incompetent and hateful police, using force against innocent residents on a daily basis....

But of course, for a Leftist, it isn't about giving the public what it wants, it I about telling them what to want, and what they should have in their heads.

There are always gaps between reality and fiction, but given what policing in America has too often become, Hollywood’s version of it looks less like fantasy and more like complicity.

Annnnnnd now the Left begins to eat their own. As usual.

Yes! Yes, idiot child! Hollywood is to blame for the murders of thousands of innocents at the hands of eeeeeevil police... or, like, 9 last year, but whatever! We HAVE to "re-educate" the moronic masses!!!

29 posted on 06/04/2020 8:04:43 PM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: Baldwin77

I am watching old brit shows right now through free streaming Acorn TV that you can get through your local library..or pay Amazon.

Right now Ian Mcshane’s old show Lovejoy.

You can also watch 10 free shows a month on Hoopla.


30 posted on 06/04/2020 8:05:32 PM PDT by RummyChick ( Yeah, it's Daily Mail. So what. AND I AM NOT FACT CHECKING POSTS. I AM NOT TWITTER)
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To: EdnaMode

Bezos should just calm down and stick to making bird-cage buttwipe.


31 posted on 06/04/2020 8:06:19 PM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: Southside_Chicago_Republican

That horse looks better than that clown at the WA Compost. Does she realize she is advocating all those movies at the Amazon streaming service? Leftists have no clue, especially retromingent bucktoothed idiots such as this poor clown.


32 posted on 06/04/2020 8:09:14 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: Paladin2

Somewhere there’s a perfectly good horse missing some teeth.


33 posted on 06/04/2020 8:12:11 PM PDT by bigdaddy45
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To: EdnaMode; flaglady47
I'm waiting for the pressure to take "Cops" and "Live PD" off TV.

The shows regularly film cops taking down the perps in chases and great body slams.

I love these programs...and "Live PD" films its shows in my county, to boot !

Viva el Policio !

Leni

34 posted on 06/04/2020 8:12:42 PM PDT by MinuteGal (MAGA !!! MAGA !!! MAGA !!!)
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To: Fightin Whitey; All

Think about this. Have you heard of an Amazon fulfillment center getting looted during all of this? No, you haven’t. Who serves to benefit from all the retail destruction? It’s a pretty simple equation.


35 posted on 06/04/2020 8:13:28 PM PDT by bigdaddy45
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To: EdnaMode

Can’t say too often...

“The media’s the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power.” – Malcolm X

And they won’t allow any interference LOL!


36 posted on 06/04/2020 8:13:39 PM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts (M / F) : Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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To: bigdaddy45

No that’s an interesting point.


37 posted on 06/04/2020 8:15:35 PM PDT by jersey117
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To: EdnaMode

Violence in the media? Cher answered it best in Clueless.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xM2mL0y9i5M


38 posted on 06/04/2020 8:18:29 PM PDT by DeplorablePaul (s)
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To: EdnaMode
Washington Compost: Shut down all police movies and TV shows.

YOu do that, and you create the conditions for more people dying, since there would be nothing on TV to watch and people would have to go outside and become more social, and they could catch coronavirus or some other deadly disease or some mental disease, like liberalism, which the author of that piece above seems to be suffering from.

Even worse....

people might have to tune in and start watching FOX or OAN, which is not something that the liberals want to happen at all.
39 posted on 06/04/2020 8:19:15 PM PDT by adorno
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To: Political Junkie Too

“On the right, it’s about being accepted.”

Therein lies the real danger.

L


40 posted on 06/04/2020 8:21:02 PM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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