CounterPunch plug on "Law and Order"

[J Cullen]

Did anybody else notice that CounterPunch got a plug in NBC's "Law 'N 
Order" Wednesday night? In the story, the cops were looking over the 
mail received by the father of an American kid who had been killed in 
Chile after Pinochet took over, after the father was found dead. The 
cops found several magazines, whose titles were composites of lefty 
periodicals but the only one that had a real title was CounterPunch. 
(None of the titles resembled "Left Business Observer, or 
"Progressive Populist", for that matter.) I wonder if CounterPunch 
had to pay for product placement or if they have a reader among the 
show's writers. (The Law 'N Order folks ended up prosecuting a 
retired Chilean colonel who was in NY for medical treatment for the 
murder of the kid, under the pretext that the murder was part of a 
conspiracy that started in New York.)

-- Jim Cullen