That’s four entries later. The first should just have Brit Marling as a spin-doctor for the Metropolitan Police.

Someone complained elsewhere that I was linking to blog post summaries rather than academic publications, so here’s one on “transfer of learning” which teaching critical thinking would require:

making Bishop a priest

The consultants hired by the show do it because they’re being paid, but working in TV/entertainment does indeed have non-pecuniary benefits for many.

It propagates opinions/ideologies in an effort to persuade viewers. It does so in a more explicitly didactic manner than L&O, which you may well find preferable.

We can both agree that murder constitutes “crime”, right? It’s generally considered the most accurately measured form of it, because we don’t rely on the victim reporting it but instead a dead body being found or a person going missing. It’s also a violent crime, which as noted is more deterred by police than a…

Jon Oliver wasn’t arguing that Dick Wolf should be making shows about people who don’t work in law enforcement (though I believe he has made some such shows for firefighters & emergency medical workers in Chicago). He was arguing that the show depicts law enforcement in an inaccurately idealized way.

Primarily financial? It says that police reduce violent crime more than property crime. And I linked to blog posts because a blog post is a closer equivalent to Newswire here than an academic study is.

There are systematic biases in fiction, and not just because every writer in lazier than you:

I don’t think every dinosaur reproduced. A genealogy tree always has leaves at the bottom.

The real problem is the general public which consumes media is not interested in greater accuracy.

It’s not a matter of agreement or disagreement. I’m treating his show as equivalent to other shows. And I used the term “propaganda” because that’s what Narsham used describing other shows.

There is no reason to think an actor will come back once someone else is playing the character. There are people on Game of Thrones like Ian Whyte & Dean-Charles Chapman who played multiple characters, but it’s the exception to the rule (and note none of the actors who played the younger versions of Cersei’s children…

Cailee Spaeny (whose surname you misspelled above) also played a character on Devs who was just supposed to be a young male rather than a woman.

What makes John Oliver a “third party group” rather than just another propagandist? He’s got a TV show... like Dick Wolf. What consequences would he face if he mislead his viewers?

No, kids don’t remember what they’re taught in school and there’s no evidence we can teach them how to think critically in the first place.

The thing that enables cops to get away with anything is not TV, since the same thing applied before TV even existed.

“more likely to believe that police are successful at lowering crime [...] which would be great if it were true, but if you’re watching this show you probably know it is not”
Well I don’t watch any late night TV, but I know that police do indeed reduce crime.
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2013/01/more…

It would have to be a much earlier prequel:

GRRM isn’t intentionally resolving things in the show. Rather he wanted the show be more like Rashomon or have a framing device, but his ideas were rejected.