Pimping FOX News On 24
1 Comments Published by The R Rated Blogger on Wednesday, January 17, 2007 at 12:13 PM.
Damn it, hate being beaten to a post.
The amount of FOX news advertising that goes on 24 is ridiculous. If you watched the season opener of 24 you would have noticed that immediately after they announced.
The Following takes place between 6:00 A.M. and 7:00 A.M.
The show opened with a shot of a television monitor broadcasting FOX News Alert.
The whole show was pretty much saturated with how many times they can fit FOX News on the screen. You can understand the fact that they want to pimp their own network. But FOX News is such a right wing tool, that it kind of makes you uneasy when you see these images being sold in sweet package like 24. Just plain old fear mongering sold in glossy fashion.
Here are some other examples.
Here's an interesting article, which asks the question whether the show 24 does a better job at convincing the public than the White House for the use of torture.
The show is much more convincing than the White House at making the case for torture; its ratings have gone steadily up over the last five years, while Bush's ratings have gone steadily down.
In "24," Sutherland plays special agent Jack Bauer, head of the Counter Terrorism Unit. He fights some of his biggest battles not with the dark-skinned enemies trying to nuke L.A., but rather with the light-skinned do-gooders who think the head of the Counter Terrorism Unit should follow the rules.
Back in season four, for example, the bumbling bureaucrats released a captured terrorist before he could be tortured -- because a lawyer for "Amnesty Global" showed up whining about the Geneva Conventions. Jack had to quit the Counter Terrorist Unit and become a private citizen in order to break the suspect's fingers.
For us Canadians this is rather sad because Kiefer is one of our boys.
It's especially unfortunate to see Kiefer Sutherland play the world's most popular torturer -- because his father, Donald Sutherland, has been a prominent antiwar activist since Vietnam days and starred in some great films critiquing fascist politics, including "MASH" and Bertolucci's "1900" -- and also because Kiefer's grandfather, Tommy Douglas, was Canada's first socialist premier, and was recently voted "the greatest Canadian of all time" -- because he introduced universal public health care to Canada. The grandson meanwhile is being paid $10 million a season by Rupert Murdoch to shoot kneecaps, chop off hands, and bite his enemies to death (Sunday's special thrill).
The amount of FOX news advertising that goes on 24 is ridiculous. If you watched the season opener of 24 you would have noticed that immediately after they announced.
The Following takes place between 6:00 A.M. and 7:00 A.M.
The show opened with a shot of a television monitor broadcasting FOX News Alert.
The whole show was pretty much saturated with how many times they can fit FOX News on the screen. You can understand the fact that they want to pimp their own network. But FOX News is such a right wing tool, that it kind of makes you uneasy when you see these images being sold in sweet package like 24. Just plain old fear mongering sold in glossy fashion.
Here are some other examples.
Here's an interesting article, which asks the question whether the show 24 does a better job at convincing the public than the White House for the use of torture.
The show is much more convincing than the White House at making the case for torture; its ratings have gone steadily up over the last five years, while Bush's ratings have gone steadily down.
In "24," Sutherland plays special agent Jack Bauer, head of the Counter Terrorism Unit. He fights some of his biggest battles not with the dark-skinned enemies trying to nuke L.A., but rather with the light-skinned do-gooders who think the head of the Counter Terrorism Unit should follow the rules.
Back in season four, for example, the bumbling bureaucrats released a captured terrorist before he could be tortured -- because a lawyer for "Amnesty Global" showed up whining about the Geneva Conventions. Jack had to quit the Counter Terrorist Unit and become a private citizen in order to break the suspect's fingers.
For us Canadians this is rather sad because Kiefer is one of our boys.
It's especially unfortunate to see Kiefer Sutherland play the world's most popular torturer -- because his father, Donald Sutherland, has been a prominent antiwar activist since Vietnam days and starred in some great films critiquing fascist politics, including "MASH" and Bertolucci's "1900" -- and also because Kiefer's grandfather, Tommy Douglas, was Canada's first socialist premier, and was recently voted "the greatest Canadian of all time" -- because he introduced universal public health care to Canada. The grandson meanwhile is being paid $10 million a season by Rupert Murdoch to shoot kneecaps, chop off hands, and bite his enemies to death (Sunday's special thrill).
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