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why bring murder into the house on tv?
Published Jul. 6, 2008
MrKagain asked why Springer? I ask, Why murder?
Why do we want to watch murder mysteries? How many of us have experienced murder in our personal or professional lives, and if we have, would we want to watch it on TV.
Murder
Murder, she Wrote
Diagnosis Murder
CSI
Crossing Jordan
Matlock
Perry Mason
Barnaby Jones
Hawaii 50
Cold Case
Law & Order
Snapped
and there are more, I;m sure.
I like Matlock because I like Andy being tight with money and funny with women.
I like Perry Mason <b&W> because Perry had so much intregrity.
I don't care for CSI, or re-enactments, but I used to love Paul Winfield narrations of those shows...."New Bern is a sleepy little southern town, and the smell of salt water was in the air at the doctor's house, where Mrs. Doctor was tending the gardner who tended the flower bed...
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I can't watch CSI, or law and order, or any of them that make it too personal.
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July 7, 2008 1:30 p.m.
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July 7, 2008 7:22 a.m.
If you have seen the new's lately and wonder how/why people can do some of the things that they do, TV plays a big part in it. Look at the guy that got hit by a car, and people walked right past him as nothing had ever happened. That is definitely just a drop in the bucket compared to all the other damage the shows do. Regardless of what anyone thinks, those TV shows only give you an "Idea" of what is going on, they do not give you the 100% picture that you would need to be considered knowledgable in those areas. Those CSI shows make it hard for us that have to do "real" Police work and the more shows that come out the harder it is to explain to citizens that things just do not work the way they do on TV.
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July 6, 2008 11:59 p.m.
I think I would have enjoyed hearing him read a phone book. While he was always speaking of murder, it seemed very unintrusive when voiced by him. He was a great talent.
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