Backed By The CDC
September 22, 2014 12:41 PM Subscribe
The Atlantic pulls back the partition on Hollywood, Health, and Society, a CDC-funded clearinghouse for popular media to better understand modern medicine - and modern medical legislation like the Affordable Care Act.
I'm glad this exists... But I wish it were funded by the MPAA (and its television equivalent). I mean it's a service that is being used by the entertainment industry and paid for by the US taxpayer.
Still, if the alternative is nothing at all, I guess it's better the taxpayer paid for this than to have much more misinformation disseminating.
I promise I'm not actually a libertarian.
posted by el io at 2:28 PM on September 22, 2014 [1 favorite]
Still, if the alternative is nothing at all, I guess it's better the taxpayer paid for this than to have much more misinformation disseminating.
I promise I'm not actually a libertarian.
posted by el io at 2:28 PM on September 22, 2014 [1 favorite]
But Levi Russell, spokesman for the conservative group Americans for Prosperity, said inserting storylines about the law into TV shows is a little “creepy.”Well, references to the Affordable Care Act are present in the article, but it's only one of the examples, and no one is "inserting" storylines about specific legislation with a partisan agenda, unless it's the writers and producers, and they can feel free to continue to do so with varying levels of inaccuracy whether or not this CDC-run agency exists.
If only daytime television (Dr. Phil, Dr. Oz) ran their information past the CDC, we'd... oh hell, they'd be out of business.
posted by mikeh at 2:46 PM on September 22, 2014 [3 favorites]
I understand the US government has been funding anti-drug messages in US shows for decades. That's creepy, this is potentially creepy.
posted by Joe in Australia at 3:52 PM on September 22, 2014
posted by Joe in Australia at 3:52 PM on September 22, 2014
In the link for the next post, "Spoiler Alert", we see many scenes with characters being killed (an obvious trope), most frequently with a single gunshot to the chest... I wonder if somebody could tell Hollywood's writers how often this provides neither an instant nor even a certain death, because it is a trope that bothers me. Oh, waitasecond, any factual information on guns will get the NRA all up in your business, and these quick-and-easy kills in the media really do help sell a LOT of guns.
posted by oneswellfoop at 4:27 PM on September 22, 2014
posted by oneswellfoop at 4:27 PM on September 22, 2014
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