News Brief: Law & Order's Boring Anti-Bail Reform Diatribe
Added 2022-11-24 00:13:16 +0000 UTCFive days before the midterm elections, the long-running NBC staple removed all subtly and character work and explicitly lobbied against bail reform in a ham-fisted, boring slog of an episode. With guest Juwan J. Holmes.
Our guest is Juwan J. Holmes, a Brooklyn-born journalist and writer, specializing in digital media, culture and art criticism. You can follow him on Twitter @JuwantheWriter.
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Show Notes
These Aren’t Our Stories Anymore: A Critical Review of the revived Law & Order
Juwan J. Holmes | November 14, 2022 | Medium
The Cop Show Enters the ‘Defund’ Era
Marc Tracy | October 3, 2022 | The New York Times
'Law And Order' And Other Cop Network TV Shows Have Run Their Course
Marina Fang | September 29, 2022 | The Huffington Post
'Law & Order' Actress Agrees With John Oliver That Show Is 'Propaganda'
Emma Nolan | September 15, 2022 | Newsweek
Why "Law & Order" has returned, even if you didn't ask for it
Melanie McFarland | February 24, 2022 | Salon
Terry Mangum | February 24, 2022 | Shadow & Act
Pop Culture Helped Turn Police Officers Into Rock Stars — And Black Folks Into Criminals
Mark Anthony Neal | October 6, 2020 | LEVEL
Television's scales of justice tipping to prosecutors
Mark Dawidziak | August 5, 2002 | The Houston Chronicle
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Credits
Senior Producer: Florence Barrau-Adams
Producer: Julianne Tveten
Production Assistant: Trendel Lightburn
Newsletter: Marco Cartolano
Transcription: Morgan McAslan
Music: Grandaddy
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Comments
Interesting — thanks for sharing! The cynicism of our criminal legal system is bottomless.
Mint
2022-11-26 21:05:16 +0000 UTCIt’ll be interesting to see if the show lasts.
Derrick Robinson
2022-11-26 13:30:28 +0000 UTCThis goes hand in hand with tHe pushback on discovery reform in NY. DAs offices are struggling to hire and retain, and the party line is that the new discovery laws have made their jobs too hard. Of course NYs laws are now basically caught up with the rest of the country, it's the same discovery they used to throw at PDs the week before trial - it's just too much work. What I also think is interesting here is the contrast in the narrative - other NYC workers are also leaving because of the Adams administrations intransigence on remote work and other issues. But for DAs, they're leaving bc of radical leftist reforms 🙄
Mills Dirlam
2022-11-26 04:47:17 +0000 UTCI LOVED mothership law and order, but the reboot was so ham-fisted I bailed on it immediately.
Matthew Brukman
2022-11-24 03:08:07 +0000 UTCAlready listened to it. Also first.
David
2022-11-24 00:15:28 +0000 UTC
