Posted on 01/16/2007 6:06:00 AM PST by rintense
"How much longer? I hear someone," says the nervous terrorist with a heavy Middle Eastern accent, just before U.S. agents storm a warehouse where a nuclear device is being assembled. Confusion reigns, drama builds, the device is detonated and a mushroom cloud looms over Los Angeles. Such is primetime television in the age of terrorism, or as some critics charge, has "24" gone too far?
"It's the closest television comes to roller coasters," said David Bianculli, television critic for the New York Daily News. "It works well dramatically, and as far as feeding fears, that's what '24' is all about."
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. Of course that may be a minority opinion given the show's enormous popularity.
(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...
So far the "politics" were 3 to 2 Liberal:
3: Karen Hayes and Wayne's sister (bleeding hearts crying about Muslim civil liberties), and gullible family protecting Muslim neighbor
2: Racist neighbor going after Ahmed; Curtis trying to kill Assad (with good reason)
Interesting juxtaposition with her muslim lobbyist boyfriend, who while wrongfully detained makes the best of it and reports the chatter he overhears while in jail.
They don't count weekends and holidays, so he's really halfway into a second work week. Gonna be a long 30 years for poor Jack.
OK, we get you now, thanks for the revealing quote.
And the support 24 actually got in the article - I don't know about the rest of you, but I always find it disconcerting when I actually agree with Ron Kuby. :)
And I'm so sick of people complaining about Arabs being portrayed as terrorists...as if they never actually are terrorists. What's more fair - depicting an Arab as one, or an 80-year-old grandmother from Des Moines? Oh wait, I forgot, airline security already decided that one.
Thanks for that info. I had no idea such stupidity existed, even in TV Land:
"The Canadian Broadcasting Company has commissioned eight episodes of “Little Mosque on the Prairie,” a television comedy about a fictional Muslim family struggling to find its place in Canada’s Western prairies after 9/11, Agence France-Presse reported. Jeff Keay, a CBC spokesman, said: “The producers recognize that this is a potentially sensitive topic. But the show is a comedy. We hope people will laugh.” A parody of “Little House on the Prairie,” which ran on NBC from 1974 to 1983 and dealt with the life and adventures of a family in the 19th-century American West, “Little Mosque on the Prairie” will go on the air in January."
They watch Fox because IT'S A FOX SHOW!!! And, you will see a CNN type of competitor that comes on from time to time.
Those who are going to watch an 'awards show' are beyond reaching anyway.
These people never stop do they? They are just so worried that people may catch on to their anti American cr*p. How a TV show (fictional) has that type of a fear impact is bizarre. After all, the RATS already know we are all too stupid to let something like this scare us.
24 was showing that in its fictional story that GITMO was no longer where we kept the terrorist. All because of PC. Sure hope it doesn't kill us all some day.
And nobody tortures as well as the Muzzies. Hence we send Khalid Shiek Mohammed to Egypt for a little "chat".
I sure did!
What world is this pencil necked geek living in? People should be drawing connections between terrorism, muslims and nuclear war! And that situation in Iran makes that all the more so!
That was a lame way to get rid of him. Curtis deserved to go out a hero, not as a cheap plot drama.
The tremendous popularity of this show indicates that there are still lots of Americans who are on board when it comes to fighting terrorists. That's what they're afraid of. The liberal media doesn't want to lose any of the negative anti-war influence it has over the sheeple.
Stupid is as stupid writes
Agreed. I was surprised at the "24 has become too liberal" As far as I'm concerned, this message of appeasement = danger to the American people is exactly what conservatives have been saying for years. I stopped trying to predict who they are basing characters on in real life...it just won't fit into any particular consistent model.
Is the president supposed to be Barak Obama?
They have no problem with CBS' 'Jericho" with nuclear weapons going off all over the world?
Poll and results at the end of the article:
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At the end of tonight's installment of "24," a nuclear bomb is detonated near Los Angeles by terrorists who have been setting off smaller bombs in cities around the country.
Has '24' gone too far?
No. There have been other shows that have dealt with apocalyptic themes...4,568
Yes. I think the show has run out of conventional ideas, and now it's going nuclear...1,088
Total Vote: 5,656
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