Comments on: TV - Suspend Belief http://popgoestheculture.com/archives/47 Susie Watson, trend analyst and pop culture pundit teams up with cartoonist Barbara Luhring. Together they tear through the real and manufactured trends in pop culture today. Listen in! Tue, 06 Jan 2009 11:29:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Susie Watson http://popgoestheculture.com/archives/47#comment-223 Susie Watson Wed, 17 Jan 2007 15:55:01 +0000 http://popgoestheculture.com/?p=47#comment-223 It is so interesting how management (in all walks of life) thinks they are one thing and staffers see them completely differently. Perception/reality. It is so interesting how management (in all walks of life) thinks they are one thing and staffers see them completely differently. Perception/reality.

]]> By: Bernadette in Australia http://popgoestheculture.com/archives/47#comment-222 Bernadette in Australia Wed, 17 Jan 2007 10:11:34 +0000 http://popgoestheculture.com/?p=47#comment-222 Great show ladies. I always get a chuckle out of West Wing. I've worked for A LOT of politicians and not one of them has been as intelligent, reasonable, lacking in ego and interested in the good of mankind as Jed Bartlett or Matt Santos. The funny thing is that the politicians all watch it and they think it's virtually a documentary about people like them. The staffers all watch it too but we think it's a fantasy. It's the place we all wish we worked instead of the sound-bite driven, game-playing, petty, ego-driven circus we actually work in. It's all about perception I guess. I think West Wing is as divorced from real politics as CSI is from real forensics. Great show ladies.

I always get a chuckle out of West Wing. I’ve worked for A LOT of politicians and not one of them has been as intelligent, reasonable, lacking in ego and interested in the good of mankind as Jed Bartlett or Matt Santos.

The funny thing is that the politicians all watch it and they think it’s virtually a documentary about people like them. The staffers all watch it too but we think it’s a fantasy. It’s the place we all wish we worked instead of the sound-bite driven, game-playing, petty, ego-driven circus we actually work in. It’s all about perception I guess. I think West Wing is as divorced from real politics as CSI is from real forensics.

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