{"id":5652,"date":"2022-09-13T11:41:40","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T15:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/?p=5652"},"modified":"2022-09-13T11:41:40","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T15:41:40","slug":"john-oliver-on-law-order-thr-iamjohnoliver-lawandordertv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/2022\/09\/13\/john-oliver-on-law-order-thr-iamjohnoliver-lawandordertv\/","title":{"rendered":"John Oliver on &#8220;Law &#038; Order&#8221; @THR @iamjohnoliver @lawandordertv"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From The Hollywood Reporter:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/tv\/tv-news\/john-oliver-law-and-order-dick-wolf-police-portayal-1235217673\/\">\u00a0John Oliver Criticizes \u2018Law &amp; Order\u2019 and Dick Wolf for Unrealistic, Highly Favorable Portrayal of Police<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The article by THR&#8217;s staff says in part,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After expressing alarm that several real-life officers of the law have said they have learned how to do their job by watching<em>\u00a0Law &amp; Order<\/em>\u00a0and its spinoffs, Oliver turned his focus to Wolf. Oliver noted that Wolf has a \u201cclose, behind-the-scenes relationship with the NYPD, employing officers as consultants and boasting about the access he had.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Scholars have been examining the pro-police and pro-prosecutor bent of legal dramas and identify it as a trend which has been going on for some time, although it has competed with a pro-defense trend. See Ken Dowler&#8217;s survey essay, &#8220;Police Dramas on Television,&#8221; in the Oxford Research Encyclopedias series <a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordre.com\/criminology\/view\/10.1093\/acrefore\/9780190264079.001.0001\/acrefore-9780190264079-e-175\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here. <\/a> See also Sabin, Wilson, Speidel, and Faucette, Cop Shows (2015).The pro-police point of view appears in foreign police shows as well. See Alan Clarke, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/29766190?seq=4#metadata_info_tab_contents\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Holding the Blue Lamp: Television and the Police in Britain,<\/a> 19 Crisis in Theory and Social Policy 44 (Summer 1983). A lot to discover about the portrayal about law enforcement on tv!<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=HedgehogsFoxes\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Hollywood Reporter:\u00a0John Oliver Criticizes \u2018Law &amp; Order\u2019 and Dick Wolf for Unrealistic, Highly Favorable Portrayal of Police. The article by THR&#8217;s staff says in part, After expressing alarm that several real-life officers&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135],"tags":[359,534,132],"class_list":["post-5652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law-and-television","tag-law-order-television-series","tag-law-and-television","tag-news"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pasVL2-1ta","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5652"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5654,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5652\/revisions\/5654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}