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Undercover detectives Tubbs (Philip Michael Thomas) and Crockett (Don Johnson) in the TV detective series Miami Vice, circa 1988. He calls that "The Thin Blue Line" narrative. First, he says, they depict situations where cops - however flawed or troubled - are society's stalwart defense against lawless drug dealers and addicts. It kind of gets under that radar." Shows glorified 'The Thin Blue Line'Īs a longtime, outspoken opponent of the aggressive arrest and imprisonment efforts central to the War on Drugs, the Emmy-winning TV producer David Simon sees two big problems with typical police dramas.
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"But that's not why people tune into entertainment programming.
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"When you're tuning into news programming, you're often trying to find news that represents to you a world you understand," she adds. "Entertainment is probably much more effective in terms of changing people's values and attitudes and beliefs and behavior, even than news programming," says Johanna Blakley, managing director of The Norman Lear Center at the USC Annenberg School for Communications and Journalism – a public policy center focused on the study of entertainment media and society.īlakley co-authored a study of primetime TV's depictions of both the War on Drugs and War on Terror released by the Lear Center in 2011.