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May 29, 2005
Law and Order, SVU, decides to drink the Hollywood Koolaid
last night I sate down to watch and episode of Law & Order, SVU that I had TiVo'd earlier this week. What I found was that instead of spending the time to write a good drama like they usually do, this week the show's makers decided to drag the reputation of the US Army through the mud, by alleging that the Army is willing to make a rather chilling cost-benefit analysis about the distribution of questionable anti-malaria medications. The show attempted to make a case that the Army thinks like this: "some soldiers will die at war anyway, so it's ok if a few die from our questionable drugs. The vast majority will benefit." This is absurd.
Well, I just discovered that I wasn't the only one who noticed this nonsense. See Quillnews: GE's NBC drama tells Army families to have nightmares this Memorial Day for a much beter fisking than I could have managed.
Even though that was the last episode of SVU for the season, I won't be TiVoing it any longer. (Yet another instance in which the internet pulls me away from the television . . .)
Posted by Chester at May 29, 2005 10:46 AM
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