Post by Rich80105On Sat, 27 Mar 2021 14:42:01 -0700 (PDT), James Christophers
Screentime has a point. Police Ten is a prime-time TV2 show that has been running since 2002. Pretty safe, then, to assume that it's a top money-spinner for Screentime.
For which they rely on money from TV2. TV2 in turn will be seeking
audience numbers to justify income from commercial advertisements
I'd also have thought that for TVNZ, any call for Police Ten to be cancelled will meet with a similar response, and for the same commercial reasons.
Unless of course 'the market' persuades television advertisers that
they do not wish to be associated with the programme. It worked for
offensive behaviour from a few radio 'personalities' . . .
In this case, doubtful, since the overarching Banjay Group will be calling the shots, not TVNZ. In any case, the chronic slumpgut lowest-common-denominator who reality TV is aimed at is hardly likely to disavow the very thing that keeps their vacant stare locked on that screen as, night after night, Police Ten after Police Ten, they pile on the lard and the gross overloading of our health service that comes with it.
Post by Rich80105The controversy: "Auckland Councillor Efeso Collins has hit out at the show, saying it depicts M?ori and Pacific men as "brutish".
"He says a recent promo for the show, which has run for 28 seasons, was edited to prominently show "young brown people" and he wants it canned."
tinyurl.com/v43m3he4
Thank you for the link - it is worth reading it all.
Query: Since Police Ten's first transmission in 2002, what reduction in crimes committed by "young brown people" (depicted) as "brutish" has been achieved that is shown to be directly attributable to the programme?
I doubt such an aim has been part of the intent of either Screentime
or TVNZ - it is I suggest solely for the prurient viewing public to
gratify and perhaps reinforce their prejudices and to experience a
momentary thrill.
Vicarious it is and vicarious it shall always be. If New Zealand's so-called "reality TV" - local or bought-in - is anything to go by, vicariousness surpasses all else in the nation's tastelessness stakes by a country mile.
Post by Rich80105For the poilice, it probably shows some of the more
difficult and physical aspects of policing, but does not necessarily
help in recruiting the sort of people they may be looking for.
One cannot be too sure. It has often been posited that cop and criminal are essentially one and the same, the only difference being that each has chosen a different career path. Cop or crim, there's a certain only-to-well-known category of Kiwi who's always up for a bit of recreational biffo wherever and whenever it's up for grabs.
Post by Rich80105The insidious effect however may well be an increase in racism, and
tolerance of racism.
Let's just say that Police Ten as depicted by Efeso Collins - i.e. selectively battening on the brown guy while **deliberately** and simultaneously titilliating the red-neck brigade - is unlikely to lessen, or lead to a greater understanding of, racism, hence promoting improved inter-racial and inter-cultural harmony and understanding.
In this regard, I doubt that the grubbers of Hobson Street give one solitary thought to the insidious negatives of their unedifying programming policy.