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Title: ABC Schedules a ‘Homeland Security’ Series
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URL Source: http://tvdecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/ ... es-a-homeland-security-series/
Published: Dec 17, 2008
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Post Date: 2008-12-17 11:24:20 by PSUSA
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ABC Schedules a ‘Homeland Security’ Series By Brian Stelter “Homeland Security USA,” a reality show produced with the full cooperation of several agencies of the Department of Homeland Security, will have its premiere on Jan. 6 on ABC. In an announcement Thursday, ABC said the production “has been given unprecedented access to the agencies,” including Customs and Border Protection, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Transportation Security Administration and the Coast Guard. The show will spotlight the work of border patrol officials who work on land, sea and air to keep the United States secure. ABC has ordered 13 episodes of the series; they will be shown on Tuesdays at 8 p.m., opposite “American Idol” on Fox. While reality shows about harrowing jobs have prospered on cable — think of “Deadliest Catch” and “Ice Road Truckers” — they have yet to find an audience on broadcast TV. When news of the series emerged in May, the show was named “Border Security USA.” Although the name has evolved, the show will still focus on the border patrol mission. Here’s the description of the first episode from ABC: The premiere episode, “This is Your Car on Drugs,” takes viewers inside some of the busiest international entry points to the U.S. At Los Angeles International Airport, a voluptuous 20-year-old woman arrives from Switzerland with no working papers but a suitcase full of titillating surprises! In the Pacific Northwest, at the Blaine, Washington border crossing, smugglers attempt to foil DHS canines by packing narcotics in baby diapers. Along the border between the U.S. and Mexico in the scorching heat of the desert outside of Tucson, Border Patrol agents race the clock to find six undocumented immigrants lost in the barren wilderness. In one of the most dramatic stories at the San Ysidro, California border crossing, a fake license plate tips a border officer off to a life-threatening situation. Meanwhile, there are some unusual illegal items intercepted at the International Mail Center in Carson, California, including a “delicacy” officers are shocked to discover is actually barbecued bats. In May, The Hollywood Reporter said the show was “billed as the first multi-episode television series to be shot in cooperation with the Department of Homeland Security.” The project elicited complaints from some Internet users, who labeled it “propaganda.” The executive producer, Arnold Shapiro, acknowledged at the time that the show was meant to portray Homeland Security in a good light. “I love investigative journalism, but that’s not what we’re doing,” he told The Reporter in May. “This show is heartening. It makes you feel good about these people who are doing their best to protect us.” Poster Comment: I saw the preview last night. It was hilarious the way they all tried to make themselves out as Captain America the Mighty Heroes You Can Depend On. The incestuous nature of the ass-kissing was so obvious.
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#1. To: PSUSA (#0)
I'm going to park my children in front of the TeeBee and make sure they don't miss one single second of it !!
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
Those shows are almost exclusively about private sector jobs. They feature people who provide real value and are actually productive. IMO, that's why they are successful. I have no desire to watch thinly disguised propaganda packaged as "reality", when in fact the shows will be nothing more than govt. employees attempting to justify their salaries.
and I'll just have to call CPS on you... Not even smirk would stoop to that. OTOH, it would be a good education in recognizing propaganda. .
Click for Privacy and Preparedness files Nehemiah 4:14 And I looked and arose and said to the nobles and to the officials and to the rest of the people, “Do not be afraid of them. Remember the Lord, who is great and awesome, and fight for your brothers, your sons, your daughters, your wives, and your homes.”
Exactly. Both jobs are much more dangerous (now) than LE. That will change soon. .
Click for Privacy and Preparedness files Nehemiah 4:14 And I looked and arose and said to the nobles and to the officials and to the rest of the people, “Do not be afraid of them. Remember the Lord, who is great and awesome, and fight for your brothers, your sons, your daughters, your wives, and your homes.”
True dat. I suppose if I *have* to I can sit down with them and make sure their impressionable minds/spirits/souls get the "Daddy subtitles" of what's really going on. LOL (thanks for caring, I'd never throw my children to the 4th Reich)
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
If the propaganda is anything like I saw on that preview, you will laugh your ass off. I literally laughed out loud when I saw it. I'd never throw my children to the 4th Reich) I know. You dont seem to be the type.
Click for Privacy and Preparedness files Nehemiah 4:14 And I looked and arose and said to the nobles and to the officials and to the rest of the people, “Do not be afraid of them. Remember the Lord, who is great and awesome, and fight for your brothers, your sons, your daughters, your wives, and your homes.”
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
Since 9/11, things are different..... LOL !!
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
#2. To: PSUSA (#0)
While reality shows about harrowing jobs have prospered on cable — think of “Deadliest Catch” and “Ice Road Truckers” — they have yet to find an audience on broadcast TV.
#3. To: Rotara (#1)
I'm going to park my children in front of the TeeBee and make sure they don't miss one single second of it !!
#4. To: duckhunter (#2)
They feature people who provide real value and are actually productive. IMO, that's why they are successful.
#5. To: PSUSA (#3)
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OTOH, it would be a good education in recognizing propaganda.
#6. To: Rotara (#5)
#7. To: PSUSA (#6)
#8. To: PSUSA (#0)
-Schweizerische Schuetzenzeitung (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
#9. To: X-15 (#8)
Great jpg
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