A Sad End

I knew ... I JUST KNEW ... there was some reason I loved tv's Law & Order so much. Silly me, I thought it might have been the great acting, the well-written scripts, the gritty true-life drama - but apparently there is more. Something I never thought about.

But Business & Media Institute did with a great piece that I'm sure had the opposite effect (at least on me) than was intended. Check out their story: Goodbye to 'Law & Order:' 20 Years of Attacking Businesses, Conservative Ideals. Cop/courtroom drama frequently puts corporate-types on trial, attacks traditional values and conservative views.

I swear, I didn't know it was that way. Can we get to together and start a write-in campaign to get NBC to reconsider their cancellation of this excellent show?

What's not to like about a show that featured a character spouting off:

“Limbaugh, Beck, O’Reilly, all of ‘em, they are like a cancer spreading ignorance and hate … They’ve convinced folks that immigrants are the problem, not corporations that fail to pay a living wage or a broken health care system …”

Bravo!

And BMI's story also has this tidbit:

The Business & Media Institute examined “Law & Order,” along with other television dramas’ treatment of businessmen in 2005. BMI found that you were 21 times more likely to be kidnapped or killed by a businessman that a mobster.

Now isn't that true to life? I don't about you guys but I've been screwed over by businesses far more than I've had problems with mobsters.

Want more? How about this:

At least two of the final season “Law & Order” episodes were distinctly pro-gay...one about torture was anti-Bush, while at least four were anti-business. With character Anita Van Buren’s struggle with cancer and difficulty paying her medical bills, there was anti-insurer vein to the entire 2009-2010 season.

Now this was television worth viewing.