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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLockup on MSNBC: education or explotation?
I've never watched an entire episode, but it strikes me as very educational.
1. I think it eliminates the notion that going to prison, any prison, means getting a cushy ride at the honest tax payer's expense.
2. I think it confronts people with the faces of those in prison. I think most middle class people have no idea who ends up in prison.
femmocrat
(28,394 posts)I will never watch it to find out. As soon as I see it, I click. Who watches it???
Cleita
(75,480 posts)just "Lockup", but since I think the appeal is to voyeurism, I would say they are exploitation.
Rex
(65,616 posts)nt
MADem
(135,425 posts)clickbait.
It's also a HUGE moneymaker--cheap to make, all that B roll can be repackaged into different formats with the same prison theme and the ad revenue it generates is PURE profit.
All you need is one guy pushing buttons to put that puppy on the air. No lighting, no anchor, no cameraman, no sound engineer, no producer, no directors, no make-up/hair stylist....just one buttscratcher who can push a button or two and make sure it goes out. And if you keep them spaced out enough in the rotation, you can get several showings out of 'em and most people won't even realize it's a rerun.
Ka-ching!!!!
If people get a "prison education" out of it, that's a bonus...but that's not the purpose, I don't think--I think they're after the dough!
monmouth3
(3,871 posts)fredamae
(4,458 posts)How else would we "accept" the Prison Industrial Complex? Constant exposure=normalizing.
I don't/Won't watch-but do they ever show those who are in these facilities who are there for non-violent crimes?
AngryAmish
(25,704 posts)hedgehog
(36,286 posts)YvonneCa
(10,117 posts)....ratings. So exploitation for $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.