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!

Terrorism as Entertainment

Posted in Podcasts on December 6th, 2005

Considered non-PC immediately following 9/11, terrorism is de rigueur in entertainment these days. Replacing the Germans of mid-century entertainment and the Russians of Cold War entertainment, our bad guys in movies and TV are now always Middle Eastern. Torture and violence continue to escalate as typical fare, so we question, where will it end? Is reality TV headed for actual deaths?

Music: “Terror” by The Les Baxter Orchestra

 
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