A&E Has Lost Half Its Viewers Since Dropping ‘Live PD’
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“Basically, it presents a world that is much more dangerous than real life,” Taberski said. “It presents the police as being much more successful than they really are. It misrepresents crime by people of color — the raw numbers are about the same but the show front-loads crime, and especially violent crime, by people of color. And anyone who’s worked in television, especially reality television, knows that you front-load your best stuff, you hook people in the first act.”
Thus... this show gave Americans the incorrect belief that (1) drug crime is rampant (it isn't), (2) that most criminals are black (they aren't), and (3) cops are good at their job (they aren't).
Every bit of this story is grotesquely moronic, lol. I’d say they’re justifiably paying the price for letting their channel become so dependent on a single genre/show in the first place.
Also a reminder that A&E used to stand for “Arts and Entertainment”
I wonder how common this is becoming for channels. I was reading people joke how MTV basically only plays one show themselves (Ridiculousness) after they announced knew of the other shows they play was being dropped.
A symbiotic relationship between entertainment, news, and the legal system developed to something very different than what we have been accustomed to. It may be a dangerous arrangement, not all that different from the way labor is provided to the prison system, entertainment content is provided to the news media.