Excellent: WaPo: ‘Ban TV Shows and Movies About Police’

A distburing op-ed in Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post on Thursday urged Hollywood to stop making movies and television shows featuring the police, because such entertainment empowers cops like the one who killed George Floyd.

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Excellent: WaPo: ‘Ban TV Shows and Movies About Police’ WaPo-ban-shows-with-cops-678x381.jpg

The desperate attempt to paint all police in a negative light was written by Alyssa Rosenberg, who admitted in her article that it might prove impractical for television networks to abruptly cancel their highest-rated programs. But, according to Rosenberg, the extreme measure would be worthwhile:

Quote :: 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 liberalism. Purely from a dramatic perspective, crime makes a story seem consequential, investigating crime generates action, and solving crime provides for a morally and emotionally satisfying conclusion.
The result is an addiction to stories that portray police departments as more effective than they actually are; crime as more prevalent than it actually is; and police use of force as consistently justified. There are always gaps between reality and fiction, but given what policing in America has too often become, Hollywood’s version of it looks less like fantasy and more like complicity.

https://newspunch.com/bezos-wapo-ban-tv-shows-movies-about-police/

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Excellent: WaPo: ‘Ban TV Shows and Movies About Police’

Excellent: WaPo: ‘Ban TV Shows and Movies About Police’

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