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Originally Posted by Bluedoggy";p="
Of course its money-making. That's a given. Because its entertaining for people. Viewers aren't watching 24 for news and information.
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I understand that. But my first thought was "entertaining?" Money-making is an empirical term. Entertaining is subjective.
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Originally Posted by Bluedoggy";p="
Daily Show and Colbert Report. Now those could be considered propaganda.
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But I think the Daily Show is actually entertaining. The Colbert Report gets old. But Jon Stewart is a (*)(*)(*)(*) funny guy!
But I suppose now I'll make a "serious" post on the topic. If 24 is propaganda... so is pretty much everything people see. The effects of too much watching TV and not enough going out are well documented (more socially conservative, more afraid of crime, more afraid of EVERYTHING really) and really don't have much to do with what's being sold on TV so much as the lack of real life. Propaganda is only a serious threat when nothing else is allowed. In Nazi Germany, for instance, you could not legally oppose the government's propaganda and the propaganda was pervasive and unending.
In this case... there's a show. You can watch it or not. You can take it seriously or not. You can weigh it against your experience and knowledge of real life or not.
Even if we are to water down our definition enough to call this propaganda... it's nothing to worry about. And it's not even pushed by the people who want to sell such policies. It just so happens people are entertained by the same stuff that makes them paranoid. This was true in the '80s when EVERY movie was about communism and it's true now.