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To: neverdem
Has Fred Thompson ever weighed in on the recurring practice of Law & Order screenwriters to adapt current events to scripts, reversing the racial identity of perps and victims?

This has happened about a dozen times. Law & Order transforms real life black criminals into white bigots.
3 posted on 01/12/2007 2:51:19 PM PST by Dan Evans
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To: Dan Evans
"Has Fred Thompson ever weighed in on the recurring practice of Law & Order screenwriters to adapt current events to scripts, reversing the racial identity of perps and victims? This has happened about a dozen times. Law & Order transforms real life black criminals into white bigots?"

One of the reasons I never watch anti-white leftist programs like "Law and Order."

4 posted on 01/12/2007 2:59:32 PM PST by StormEye
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To: Dan Evans
Has Fred Thompson ever weighed in on the recurring practice of Law & Order screenwriters to adapt current events to scripts, reversing the racial identity of perps and victims?

I don't watch prime time TV shows like Law & Order, and I'm not from Tennessee. I can't say.

5 posted on 01/12/2007 3:14:44 PM PST by neverdem (May you be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows that you're dead.)
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To: Dan Evans
Has Fred Thompson ever weighed in on the recurring practice of Law & Order screenwriters to adapt current events to scripts, reversing the racial identity of perps and victims?

This has happened about a dozen times. Law & Order transforms real life black criminals into white bigots.

Why would any reasonable person subject himself to broadcast TV? Between football games I forget that broadcast channels even exist.

9 posted on 01/12/2007 5:48:03 PM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion (The idea around which liberalism coheres is that NOTHING actually matters except PR.)
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To: Dan Evans
Has Fred Thompson ever weighed in on the recurring practice of Law & Order screenwriters to adapt current events to scripts, reversing the racial identity of perps and victims?
This has happened about a dozen times. Law & Order transforms real life black criminals into white bigots.

A dozen times in seventeen seasons? The horror!

I certainly don't see an anti-white bias on the show. Are the demographics of criminals on the show in line with the real world? Probably not. Suspects on L&O are a lot whiter and a lot richer. You may note that routine muggings, burglaries, gang-bangers shooting each other, car theft and drug possession cases are far underrepresented, because they tend to be pretty boring. I see it as a bias in favor of good storytelling, not racial politics.

I find the show's politics pretty even-handed, which certainly hasn't always been the case. I catch the occasional re-run from the Michael Moriarty years, and it's amazing how heavy-handed some of the episodes are when they wander into political/legal topics like abortion and defendants' rights. It becomes more even-handed (and much better written) over the years, and the addition of Fred Thompson certainly helped -- less, I suspect, because he fights with the writers, but because he's a really good actor and a more eloquent voice for conservatism than they had before.

12 posted on 01/12/2007 6:22:50 PM PST by ReignOfError
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