Letters to the Editor
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Thanks for sharing!
"I’m somewhat astounded by this is a rather fawning review
of a cop show whose plot lines consistently glorify extra-judicial violence, meted out with hackneyed and predictable “thin blue line” rationalizations, and offered up with all of the emotional intelligence of either, a. a badly scripted soap opera or, b. the Bush administration. I would suggest that anyone inclined to publicly laud this cop porn might consider reading Bob Herbert’s recent NYT columns about the spate of NYPD assaults on students (and teachers) in that city’s public schools. The only discernable message of The Shield’s infantile morality play would seem to be that the ends always justify the means, and if yee-haw police brutality happens to predominate in the process, so be it. Just so long as loyalty prevails.
I’ll confess that I’ve watched the Shield. But then again, I’ve also eaten at McDonald’s, and I’m none the better for it."
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