This feels like a new low. Usually they dance around portraying the CIA in TV shows by calling the protagonist “ex-CIA” or using a fake agency or something else. I guess that Jack Ryan show was basically about the CIA right?
There is definitely a change in propaganda. I’m old and I think over the decades it’s gotten to be absurdly blatant. Now lots of American tv series don’t even pretend to care about the national sovereignty of other nations. It’s just a given the CIA, etc can spy on anybody, kidnap anybody, kill anybody - anywhere. America is entitled to do it.
Police state fiction will get weird under Trump. I won’t be surprised if somebody like Taylor Sheridan has a series where the highly telegenic lead character in a real or pretend police state org says “We gotta protect the US against foreign enemies and domestic enemies too…” And the main plotline is ridiculous and it involves an implausible group of enemies teaming up against America. The group will be some combination of China, “the cartels”, Antifa, and American pols who aren’t described directly as democrats but clearly are. The lead character will say the pols are “fighting against the president and seeking to overturn what’s right.”
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This feels like a new low. Usually they dance around portraying the CIA in TV shows by calling the protagonist “ex-CIA” or using a fake agency or something else. I guess that Jack Ryan show was basically about the CIA right?
John Krasinski went and hung out with the CIA to help him with the role, and then glowered about them in interviews. They definitely had input.
‘glowered’ means to stare angrily btw, I think you’re thinking of ‘glowing’ which is a positive descriptor
There is definitely a change in propaganda. I’m old and I think over the decades it’s gotten to be absurdly blatant. Now lots of American tv series don’t even pretend to care about the national sovereignty of other nations. It’s just a given the CIA, etc can spy on anybody, kidnap anybody, kill anybody - anywhere. America is entitled to do it.
Police state fiction will get weird under Trump. I won’t be surprised if somebody like Taylor Sheridan has a series where the highly telegenic lead character in a real or pretend police state org says “We gotta protect the US against foreign enemies and domestic enemies too…” And the main plotline is ridiculous and it involves an implausible group of enemies teaming up against America. The group will be some combination of China, “the cartels”, Antifa, and American pols who aren’t described directly as democrats but clearly are. The lead character will say the pols are “fighting against the president and seeking to overturn what’s right.”
Over how many decades though? 70-80’s propaganda was obscene.