The Fool wrote:
>
> > From: Julia Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> > The Fool wrote:
> >
> > > I wasn't suggesting anything involving 'terrorism', I was suggesting
> > > other features of the Taliban rule. How about a different analogy.
> > > Popery in the middle ages (not that medieval popery was less violent
> than
> > > the Taliban (perhaps much more so)). A theocratic 'god' rule.
> > >
> > > They put 'crime scene investigation' on their list of top 10 worst
> shows,
> > > at #3. Unless I am mistaken, csi, is not a drama or fictional, but
> shows
> > > professionals in action. Apparently anything that teaches people how
> to
> > > think logically, using the scientific method, is baa-ad. Must
> protect
> > > the children from concepts like a spherical earth, and evolution.
> >
> > It *is* a drama. Fictional. With writers and such.
> >
> > http://us.imdb.com/Title?0247082 for more about it.
> >
> > You *are* mistaken. (Sorry.)
> >
> > Of the top 10 (and I assume you're looking at the list at
> > http://www.parentstv.org ), there are 2 "reality shows", Big Brother 2
> and
> > Temptation Island 2. The rest are comedies or dramas. And at their
> list at
> >
> http://www.parentstv.org/PTC/publications/reports/top10bestandworst/main.a
> sp CSI
> > is listed as a drama. (But the link that tells you that is a
> Javascript one, so
> > I expect you didn't get anything useful from it.)
>
> Does the show deal with figuring out things based on forensic evidence
> etc.? Seems like it would.
Yes, but that's not where the problem is. The objection is violence
(flashbacks to the crime, apparently in every episode), sexual
situations (rarer), and language.
If it were a documentary, there wouldn't be the flashbacks, sexual
situations and cussing that occurs in the drama. Their Worst 10 doesn't
have any of the TLC/Discovery-type documentaries on crime investigation,
which shows a lot more of the scientific method stuff that you object to
censoring, and a lot less of the stuff they're actually objecting to.
If you want for me to go through the javacrap stuff on each of their
Worst 10 (actually, only 8 of them have the explanatory links) and
report to you their reasoning on each, I would be willing to do so.
(What I don't understand, looking at their evaluations, is why Boston
Public is lower on the list than That '70s Show.)
Julia
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