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>From: Paul Henry Rosenberg <rad at gte.net>
>To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
Paul:
this is a rather unnecessary piece of condecension:
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>Hey, Liza, if you want to micromanage either, I'm behind you all the way
>in getting a staff writing job, honest I am!
But more importantly, thanks for the backstory very helpful to those of us living in late-night rerun land. I didn't have that context and no the whole show makes a lot more sense. Narratively and politically.
Liza
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>> And often when a black person is prosecuted the L&O DAs are
>> agonizing about how "the black community" will
>> react -- not a realistic obsession for most DAs
>> offices I dont think.
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>No, not most. But the backstory in "Law & Order" makes it clear that
>the DA's political base is under attack, and he can't afford to lose
>that support. Without that backstory your objection would be spot on.
>The fact that Wolfe put that backstory in, thus making those concerns
>more believable, is the kind of detail work that's typical of what makes
>"Law & Order" a really special show.
>
>And, of course, Baltimore is Baltimore. It doesn't have the
>megalo-corporate uberstructure that can allow it to ignore the
>neighborhoods with impunity. It does have the visible black politicos
>whose reps depend on keeping up their images. The layout makes the
>special circumstance believeable.
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>> But it was cool on the Practice recently when they rejected
>> that asbestos manufacturer client and explained why it was
>> OK to reject bad corporate clients but you still had to
>> represent street criminals even if you thought
>> they were icky.
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>Yes, it was. One of the better episodes.
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>--
>Paul Rosenberg
>Reason and Democracy
>rad at gte.net
>
>"Let's put the information BACK into the information age!"