Via Think Progress, I have learned that:
- The Fox TV series ‘24′ will include fewer torture scenes in its final episodes this season. Executive Producer Howard Gordon claimed that the change was not due to pressure from the military, but rather because it had become cliché. “What was once an extraordinary or exceptional moment is starting to feel a little trite. The idea of physical coercion or torture is no longer a novelty or surprise,” Gordon said.
You want to know what keeps me up at night? The fact that the idea of physical coercion or torture is no longer a novelty or surprise. Millions of viewers are so numb to the sight of other humans being brutalized that producers can't even use torture-porn to sell shit any more.
Deeeeee-sturbing.
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By the end of the Bush years nothing will outrage Americans.
Aleks, I beg to differ. If there remains no clear explanation for the death of Anna Nicole Simpson, you can be sure that the opinion pages of every newspaper will be full of calls for better investigative reporting!
I knew as soon as I posted that I should have qualified it. Nothing seriously bad will seem surprising after Bush.
Hey Author, are you coming home at all this summer? We saw Sin City together, I'd like to see 300 with you.
Is it any surprise that the guy behind 24 is the same dumbass behind Fox News's 1/2 Hour News Hour?
"In fact, Finnegan and the others had come to voice their concern that the show’s central political premise—that the letter of American law must be sacrificed for the country’s security—was having a toxic effect. In their view, the show promoted unethical and illegal behavior and had adversely affected the training and performance of real American soldiers. “I’d like them to stop,” Finnegan said of the show’s producers. “They should do a show where torture backfires.”"
http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/070219fa_fact_mayer
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