[rintense]

For discussion.

[SuziQ]

"Fear has been used to paralyze people's intellects," said Jhally. "If they can scare people, almost anything becomes possible. When people are afraid their brains shut off and it makes you confused and want easy solutions."

Sounds like what the Libs do on TV news every day regarding the war in Iraq.

There's that projection again.

[Bob J]

Wjat were the libs saying about Dan Quayle over his comments regarding Murphy Brown?

Get over it Dan, it's not real.

[StayoutdaBushesWay]

How do you think I feel? I believe the blast on the show happened on Mill Valley Rd. in Valencia, which is only 3 streets over from me..LOL :)

[Starrgaizr]

Ha Ha! Remember The Day After, which was just a terrific, significant movie according to liberals pushing the Alan Cranston/Walter Mondale nuclear freeze back in 1984?

Then, showing the devastating effects of nuclear war was ever so important, because the political objective was unilateral disarmament. With 24, it is being tough on terror, so suddenly they are so squeemish.

From Wiki:

"Reaction

On the night of its television broadcast (Sunday, November 20, 1983), ABC opened several 1-800 hotlines with counselors standing by to calm jittery viewers. After the film's broadcast ABC also aired a live and very heated debate between scientist Carl Sagan, who openly opposed nuclear proliferation and Conservative writer William F. Buckley, Jr., who promoted the concept of "nuclear deterrence". During the debate, Sagan discussed the concept of nuclear winter and made his famous analogy, equating the arms race to "two sworn enemies standing waist-deep in gasoline. One with three matches, the other with five." The film's effect was also felt in Kansas City and Lawrence. One psychotherapist counseled a group that watched at Shawnee Mission East High School in the Kansas City suburbs, and 1,000 others held candles at a peace vigil in Penn Valley Park in downtown Kansas City. ABC News knew that the peace vigil was staged with Hollywood extras, but omitted this fact from their broadcasts. In Lawrence, a discussion group called Let Lawrence Live was formed by the English department at the university, and several dozen more people from the Humanities department gathered on the University of Kansas campus in front of the university's Memorial Campanile and lit candles in a peace vigil.

The film provoked much political debate in the United States. Some argued that the film underscored the true personal horror of nuclear conflict[citation needed], and that the United States should therefore renounce the 'first use' of nuclear weapons, a policy which had been a cornerstone of NATO defense planning in Europe. Those arguing for a nuclear freeze also relied on the sheer horror depicted in the film for support.

[finnman69]

now if the bomb had gone if in West Hollywood THAT would have been something

http://bauernuked.ytmnd.com/

[finnman69]

ABC nuked the world in 1983

[Armedanddangerous]

To that writer I would quote the profetic words of Sgt, Hulka, from the movie STRIPES, who opined...

"Lighten up Francis."

[matt1234]

Mr. Sut Jhally:

[dennisw]

bttt

[TheRightGuy]

Such is primetime television in the age of terrorism, or as some critics charge, has "24" gone too far?

They act like this is the first time ... a terrorist nuke went off in season 2 as well, albeit out in the desert.

[VeniVidiVici]

Holy cow! 500 posts on a thread about a TV show?

[bray]

Too far is watching PravdABDNC's drivel. The best part of the show was that President OPalma was the one who caused the blast with his attempt to Kerry favor w/terrorists.

Pray for W and Our Troops

[SierraWasp]

Well... What about "Jericho?" Seriously... What about it???

[G Larry]

Somebody tell this clown that it's not the associations that are dangerous, it's pretending that there is NO Association that is dangerous!

[InvisibleChurch]

but the left seemed to be ok when nukes went off in The Day After

[Cindy]

ON THE NET...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1761584/posts?page=13#13
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1761584/posts?page=880#880

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=nuclear

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THIS IS FICTION:

http://hotair.com/archives/2007/01/16/video-nuclear-bomb-goes-off-on-24/

[FreedomCalls]

Sut Jhally, co-producer and co-director of the film "Hijacking Catastrophe," says the dramatic action in the show creates a dangerous climate in which the public loses some of its perspective on what's real and what's not.

And that was not a problem when "Roots" did the same? Or the movie "JFK"?

[Not A Snowbird]

There's a difference between "feeding fear" and pointing out, very bluntly, what happens when you show weakness to terrorists.

[kabar]

Where was such similar outrage from the MSM aboutThe Day After? and The Day After Tomorrow?

[kcvl]

http://www.sutjhally.com

Sut Jhally is a professor of Communication at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and founder and executive director of the Media Education Foundation (MEF). He is one of the most popular teachers at the University of Massachusetts and is nationally known among college students for his videotape Dreamworlds: Desire/Sex/Power in Music Video,which he created to present his critique of representations of women in popular culture and commercial images. Over the past fifteen years, Sut Jhally has been the executive producer of more than twenty videos produced and distributed by the Media Education Foundation.

As an author, his written work includes, The Codes of Advertising, co-author of Social Communication in Advertising, and Enlightened Racism. He is also co-editor of Cultural Politics in Contemporary America and Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire. He has written broadly on issues of popular representation and is regarded as one of the world’s leading cultural studies scholar in the area of advertising, media, and consumption.