CounterPunch plug on "Law and Order"

[Uday Mohan]

My TV's thankfully broken so I didn't see this, but a few years ago I
saw a copy of The Nation on display for about 30 seconds on the Tony
Danza sitcom, "Who's the Boss?" The main woman character was reading it
during the opening credit sequence. Almost as incongruous was the recent
appearance of Chomsky's book on Kosovo in Business Week. It got a
positive review.

Uday

J Cullen wrote:
> 
> 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