Prime Time Propaganda

[WinstonSmith]

2000 article on how the government used entertainment to propagandize an anti-drug message.

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/01/13/drugs/

[jredheadgirl]

Whoa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Did I say whoa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?????????

The White House reviewed scripts? Via payoffs? What? OMG....This is creepy, creepy, creepy.. and wrong. This issue is about a hell of a lot more than drugs.

[smallbird]

That article was written in 2000 JR, but I'm pretty sure it is still happening. I don't watch much "prime time" TV anymore, nothing interests me since they took off the good shows and replaced them with reality TV and Jay Leno every night. I just hunker down with my computer and read my Kindle (as well as hard copy books).

[jredheadgirl]

I just hunker down with my computer and read my Kindle (as well as hard copy books).

Smallbird,

Books are a good thing:-) .....and thank god for the computer....oh, and MUSIC.

PS...UNFETTERED music...hehe...

[smallbird]

I also love music JR - mostly oldies (classic rock) since I'm an oldie (classic blonde)

Also, I minored in music in college (never got to the point of public performance, like you).

[jredheadgirl]

I also love music JR - mostly oldies (classic rock) since I'm an oldie (classic blonde)

Also, I minored in music in college (never got to the point of public performance, like you).

Smallbird,

Classic rock ROCKS:-) It's classic for a reason..hehe...

What was your major?

[Ariel]

http://www.dosenation.com/listing.php?id=6678

We have not been given, nor will we be given, an adequate explanation for why House's chronic pain is suddenly manageable without painkillers. Keep in mind House had a legitimate, verifiable medical condition (infarction leading to muscle death) in his leg, so it's not like fibromyalgia or bad headaches some other painful condition that is hard if not impossible to medically verify.
The DEA has been writing letters to Fox complaining about House's "flagrant use and abuse of narcotics without consequence" for years now, and finally the network, writers, and producers all caved in to the government's demands... in the worst possible way. They decided to make the vicodin House had been taking for over a decade into a sudden hallucinogen, causing him to see dead people. They showed him going through the painful detox, and now he's just fine and dandy, no reference to his pain at all. And there won't be any further reference to his pain, other than "it's all manageable."

Who knows???