CBS - CBS NEWS BLOG EXAMINES FOX'S 24

CBS NEWS BLOG EXAMINES FOX'S 24

The CBS News blog Public Eye is highlighting the growing controversy over Fox's hit drama 24, which this season concerns a terrorist attack on the U.S. using low-grade nuclear weapons. The blog cites several TV critics who have branded the program right-wing propaganda, then offers its own take on the criticism: "What does that mean?" it asks, referring to the critical response. Then seems to side with Milwaukee Journal Sentinel columnist Eugene Kane, who concluded that "24 is to conservatives what The West Wing was to liberals." Meanwhile, the current online edition of the liberal magazine The Nation observes: "It's especially unfortunate to see Kiefer Sutherland play the world's most popular torturer, because his father, Donald Sutherland, has been a prominent antiwar activist since Vietnam days and starred in some great films critiquing fascist politics. ... It's unfortunate also because Kiefer's grandfather, Tommy Douglas, was Canada's first socialist premier, and was recently voted 'the greatest Canadian of all time.'"

18/01/2007