Washington Post: Let’s cancel
all the cop shows on TV
Hot Air,
by
John Sexton
Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog,
6/5/2020 3:58:38 PM
Writing at the Washington Post, author Alyssa Rosenberg has a unique solution for the problems with our policing: Cancel all the cop shows on television. She argues we need to do that because there’s a “reactionary streak” behind the “surface liberalism” in these shows. 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
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Shmowry1 6/5/2020 4:08:10 PM (No. 433659)
Fine by me. They are all virtue signaling liberal writer echo chambers these days in any event. Have you seen SVU? Garbage.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Urgent Fury 6/5/2020 4:12:08 PM (No. 433665)
Yeah I agree but for different reasons.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
jimincalif 6/5/2020 4:12:54 PM (No. 433666)
I like this, delete all cop shows and movies, and of course any that feature guns as well. This will take a bite out of leftist Hollywood. Die Hard Franchise - almost $1.5 billion in revenue, Beverly Hill Cop franchise, over $700 million, the list goes on and on.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
fishbone 6/5/2020 4:22:49 PM (No. 433672)
Don't stop there. Remove any show which even mentions or refers to cops.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
JL80863 6/5/2020 4:31:03 PM (No. 433683)
Let's put the WaPOS out of business.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
OhioNick 6/5/2020 4:45:36 PM (No. 433695)
A conservative friend of mine once stated that she enjoyed watching cop shows because bad people always got what's coming to them.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
bamapreacher 6/5/2020 4:53:23 PM (No. 433702)
If nothing else it would stop giving idiots like Biden the impression that cops have such fantastic aim that they can merely shoot guns out of criminal's hands and shoot them in the leg just as easily as anywhere else. No matter how good they are on the range, in real life cops being threatened have to aim for the biggest target which is the torso.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
tybalt 6/5/2020 5:05:21 PM (No. 433713)
I'm all for it. Almost every cop show I've seen recently is so diverse that a third are black men, a third are women (black, white and sometimes lesbian) and the rest are gay and or white men. The only place there is little or no diversity is the perps. All white men. A few hispanics. White hispanics? I exaggerate a little, but not much. One exception is Chicago PD. It has black perps as drug dealers, but always buffered by the many black victims. Blue Bloods has gotten very PC and I don't watch it much anymore. Of course, it's not just cop shows. A martian coming from outer space, if all his communications were through TV, he would think blacks and gays make up half the population, no one gets married to have children and most relationships are interracial. I used to love to watch detective shows and try to figure out who done it using deductive reasoning. Now I solve it within a few minutes and it has nothing to do with skill. I just decide who they think fits the narrative and he's it. I'm right about 95 % of the time. No wonder so many people have quit watching TV. The only reason I still watch at all is for the game I play with myself. Seeing how often I figure it out and just the hilarity of how "they just can't help themselves" falling all over each other to be as PC as possible.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
OhioNick 6/5/2020 5:10:11 PM (No. 433722)
#8
That's absolutely true. And remember the Michael Douglas film about a violent vigilante, "Falling Down?" The film depicted criminal after criminal, and not one was black.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
moonlightflip 6/5/2020 5:10:14 PM (No. 433723)
oh no! how will i be able to go on?
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
snowoutlaw 6/5/2020 5:18:46 PM (No. 433727)
Sure because by watching reality shows like Cops I can see right through all the lies from BLM and the rest of the racist hate gangs.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Ken M. 6/5/2020 5:29:46 PM (No. 433731)
Also #8, "Chicago PD" has some black producers and directors. So there are some good messages in the programming ... e.g., Sgt Voight gets extremely upset when a witness tells a detective that "the black kid probably did it".
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Strike3 6/5/2020 5:57:31 PM (No. 433765)
They are all populated by black actors anyway, do it.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Hoosier 6/5/2020 6:03:44 PM (No. 433773)
At least get rid of "FBI." In every other show they are chasing "white supremacists."
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
DVC 6/5/2020 6:08:58 PM (No. 433779)
YEAH, That's the rood cause here.
/s off
When there are no police, you had better be armed and skilled.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
czechlist 6/5/2020 6:24:16 PM (No. 433793)
Oh my. Are they talking about taking Mayberry, Gunsmoke and Dragnet off the air?
Please not Highway Patrol!
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Alyssa probably gets a delicious chill when she can trot out her college social justice terms like "reactionary", "collaborating", and "valorizing." Frank Lloyd Wright coined a term for folks like her: "over-educated." He defined it as being educated beyond one's capacity.
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Golly gee!! Great idea Wally!! Let me go get The Beaver and we'll sit and watch Murphy Brown all day so we'll know how we should conduct ourselves through the Dystopia that's about to come!
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
or gate 6/5/2020 7:19:53 PM (No. 433851)
Cops are the only thing I watch on TV.
It shows us the idiots they have to cater too.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
LanceLink1 6/5/2020 8:03:57 PM (No. 433892)
She also means shows like The First 48, Cops, Live PD and such. Shows that depict reality they don't want you to know.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
cor-vet 6/5/2020 8:23:01 PM (No. 433925)
For my 2 cents, I'd like to cancel all the lawyer shows, because in those shows, all lawyers are carrying, justice seeking do-gooders.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
24tea@Mag 6/5/2020 8:43:17 PM (No. 433944)
Let’s cancel the Washington Post and Amazon orders.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Penney 6/5/2020 9:10:31 PM (No. 433969)
Keep the quality police shows like Blue Bloods but how about cancelling all the lawyer shows, ...except Perry Mason reruns, of course.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
JimBob 6/5/2020 9:50:01 PM (No. 433999)
As for me, I quit watching TV completely many years ago.
Did not even own one when I was single.
I bought one for my wife when we got married, 35 years ago.
She likes to watch a couple of game shows in the morning, and the local news and weather at night.
Other than that, the Idiot Box stays turned OFF.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
hershey 6/5/2020 10:08:07 PM (No. 434016)
No, lets cancel the WaPo, it's no longer even fit for bird cage liner...
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
padiva 6/5/2020 10:15:55 PM (No. 434021)
And get rid of all the violent movies and video games.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
ladydawgfan 6/5/2020 11:20:17 PM (No. 434066)
Leave my LivePD alone!! The cops on that show are excellent!! The show is entertaining and the good guys, for the most part, get the bad guys and aren't jerks about it!!
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Drumie 6/6/2020 12:03:03 AM (No. 434084)
Let's go back to Westerns.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
DVC 6/6/2020 1:21:21 AM (No. 434137)
I like watching "Blue Bloods".
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I assume that popular police TV shows like Blue Bloods are on the chopping block.