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 ...
Drudge says the Globes were in first. However, it wasn't a slaughter. Shows you the drivel people will watch these days. Who gives a rats ass what liberal gives another liberal a junk award for lousy entertainment.
Nuclear threats and nuclear explosions have been all over television and movies shown on television.
So ABC has ratings problems. In a lame attempt to attack Fox's ratings success, it engages its news division to create a hit piece. Oddly enough, the article complains that a Fox show is showing Fox news.
I seem to have read somewhere once he was more of a Libertarian bent than his father.
Be that as it may, I don't really care about his political leanings as long as he doesn't spout them off and keeps putting out the quality product he has for the past five years.
"This television show is very political, and it's no accident that it's on Fox," said Jhally....
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Say what? Not much of a TV watcher, but I seem to recall that Fox led the way many years ago in lowering the bar on decency and leading to the kind of disgusting trash that calls itself comedy and drama on the airwaves today.
Dear SoothingDave,
LOL!
The relevant question is why do all these people (including myself) know so much about a TV series??
;-)
sitetest
Since Islam has been at war with the rest of the world for over 1400 years I don't see the stereotyping.
My family and I are fans of that show. Do you know when they are going to start the rest of the season?
We are subjected to movies and tv specials about the what if scenarios of super volcanoes, the impending doom of ice ages, earthquake and tsunami fear mongering, but don't dare mention a threat that is most assuredly very real and very now.
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Well said, FRiend!
Worth repeating.
I love the show.
I suspect it's cause we don't have to hunt or identify useful flora any more.
The old man is only in his element when he's playing a psycho, a freak or a kook. IMNSHO he stole the show in Kelly's Heroes.
The Morning After was aired 21 years ago!
"24"'s true ratings could be 19.0 instead of 10.5 and Nielsen would never know about it.
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A stat that will be interesting will be today's sales for the first four episodes on DVD. It won't approach Harry Potter book first day sale numbers, but I can see where the number could be huge. I hope it gets publicized.
LOL!
It's coming back in mid-February.
One man's propaganda is another man's truth...
No, Logan was VP under President Keeler.
Re #267 -- LOL, that's exactly what my husband said! "Why didn't the neighbor just go to Walmart and pick up a shotgun?" I reminded him they were supposed to be in Los Angeles where I doubt you can do such a thing.
It is only the behavior of ARABS that has reinforced the stereotypes of Arabs;they are the most predictably narrow-minded, insular, and dysfunctional people on the planet.
It's just remarkable how these feel-good sentiments you quoted just go on and on and on, still making their exponents feel all gooey inside and proud of themselves for being so "progressive". Their rhetoric is EXACTLY the same as CAIR's/
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