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CBS is really pumping up the PR for the NSA. Recent episodes of NCIS have a NSA agent on loan to the NCIS staff. She's cute, smart, and quirky and does a grea
by IanDrake 13y ago
CBS is really pumping up the PR for the NSA.
Recent episodes of NCIS have a NSA agent on loan to the NCIS staff. She's cute, smart, and quirky and does a great job protecting us all from the scary people.
Also, Hawaii 5.0, had a hack attack on an episode lately and they were all "Thank god we have the NSA to protect us". Ok, I forget the details on that one, but I remember rolling my eyes.
Now with 60 minutes jumping on board, it's plain to see there's a coordinated effort to spin the NSA in a good light. Not just a whitewash, the message is "The NSA spying on Americans is a good thing".
- smacktoward 13y agoThis is true. I wonder how much of it is just CBS pandering to its demographic rather than coordinated propaganda, though. The CBS audience skews old (http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-09-06/from-cbs-advertisers-get-the-older-viewers-they-want http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-09-06/from-cbs-adv...), and loves police procedurals, which as a genre unfailingly cheerlead for institutional authorities. (Think how many procedural plotlines turn on the Good Guy Cops lying to or physically threatening someone they've got in an interrogation room, for instance. This is always presented as the Good Guy Cops being smart and savvy, not as an abuse of power.) So if you've got an audience that wants to be told that the authorities are always right, you could decide strictly for business reasons to just give them more of that.
- dlinder 13y agoNever mind Person of Interest, where an all-seeing computer helps extralegal lawbending crimefighters save lives...