How TV Dramas Informed And Misinformed Perceptions Of The War On Drugs
NPR, June 18, 2021: How TV Dramas Informed And Misinformed Perceptions Of The War On Drugs
“To trace how scripted TV shows have impacted the public's view of the war on drugs, I spoke to a range of people in the industry, from the executive producer of Miami Vice to the author of the book that inspired Netflix's prison drama Orange Is the New Black. Most said they believed scripted TV shows had a serious and sometimes unrecognized impact on public attitudes, simply by encouraging audiences to empathize with some parts of the process, while keeping more troubling aspects firmly out of view.”
Additional reading:
Level, October 6, 2020: The Myth of the ‘Good Cop’: Pop Culture Helped Turn Police Officers Into Rock Stars — And Black Folks Into Criminals
Teen Vogue, August 5, 2020: Copaganda: What It Is and How to Recognize It
Color of Change, January 2020: Normalizing Injustice: The Dangerous Misrepresentations that Define Television’s Scripted Crime Genre
The Norman Lear Center: MCD: Primetime War on Drugs
