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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crazies love their extremes
No doubt she has an ivy league degree.
In oat munching from a feed bag.
Alyssa is right. We should just have non stop Meryl Streep/Cher/Jane Fonda movies telling white men they are evil.
Ah yes, Malcolm, the reason for the Xmas season.
To stay on topic. Tomorrow evening is episode #299 of Live PD. I will be watching. If I have to take Mrs. Chajin to the ER in a wheelchair because of a sudden flare up of her MS, I will still be watching.
I will not be reading the WaPo. That is not ignorance on my part but wisdom.
Good lord!
Give her an apple or a sugar cube and put her back in the stall!
I am sure Mr. Ed would not be pleased with me.
She can shove her censorship plan.
lol insane imbeciles! Shut Hollywood down now!
Lisa Page kind of reminds me of Natasha, Boris’ girlfriend.
I always liked Natasha.
Page? not so much.
...speaking of gaps between reality and fiction...let’s talk about the media. And the way they change truths for lies to further their agenda. How they twist and slash actual news for OPINION. And print it as breaking news. And go on and on 24/7 continuing the ruse.
Start in your own house Washington Post.
i dont agree with wapo because they hate cops and the rule of law
i do hate the massive amount of cop shows just because they are ubiquitous and tiresome.
Too bad there is no place to order from that is CCP free.
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/27/fashion/weddings/alyssa-rosenberg-and-matthew-gertz.html
Sept. 27, 2015
Alyssa Bennett Rosenberg and Matthew Anthony Gertz were married Saturday in Washington. Christopher Ashley, a friend of the couple who received temporary officiant status from the Marriage Bureau of the District of Columbia, officiated at the Josephine Butler Parks Center, a historic house.
The bride, 30, who will continue to use her name, works in Washington as a columnist for The Washington Post, where she writes Act Four, a culture and politics column. She graduated cum laude from Yale.
She is a daughter of Susan J. Bennett and John S. Rosenberg of Lexington, Mass. The bride’s father is the editor of Harvard Magazine in Cambridge, Mass. Her mother is the executive director of the Lexington Historical Society, a nonprofit organization in Lexington that works to preserve buildings from the Revolutionary War.
The groom, 31, is the research director for Media Matters for America, a media monitoring and watchdog organization in Washington, where he oversees researchers who monitor, analyze and correct misinformation in the news media. He graduated cum laude from Columbia.
No fan of Page, either, to say the least.
Sept. 27, 2015
Alyssa Bennett Rosenberg and Matthew Anthony Gertz were married Saturday in Washington. Christopher Ashley, a friend of the couple who received temporary officiant status from the Marriage Bureau of the District of Columbia, officiated at the Josephine Butler Parks Center, a historic house.
The bride, 30, who will continue to use her name, works in Washington as a columnist for The Washington Post, where she writes Act Four, a culture and politics column. She graduated cum laude from Yale.
She is a daughter of Susan J. Bennett and John S. Rosenberg of Lexington, Mass. The bride’s father is the editor of Harvard Magazine in Cambridge, Mass. Her mother is the executive director of the Lexington Historical Society, a nonprofit organization in Lexington that works to preserve buildings from the Revolutionary War.
The groom, 31, is the research director for Media Matters for America, a media monitoring and watchdog organization in Washington, where he oversees researchers who monitor, analyze and correct misinformation in the news media. He graduated cum laude from Columbia.
He is the son of Evelyn Pellicane and William L. Gertz of Fairfield, Conn. The groom’s father works in Stamford, Conn., as the president and the chief executive of the American Institute for Foreign Study, which runs educational exchange programs between European and American high school students. His mother is a classical guitarist who teaches at the Westport School of Music in Westport, Conn.
The couple met in 2012 when the groom was invited by a mutual friend to a dinner party that the bride was hosting in Washington.
GMTA though you’re quicker.
OMG. I could not have written this. It would not be believable. It is simply too full of stereotypes. From beginning to end.
Just shut down anything Alyssa Rosenberg doesn’t like. That’ll fix everything.
A horse is a horse, of course, of course.
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