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Live PD
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Disney: It’s Time to Pull the Plug on A&E
The loss in viewership, attributed to A&E’s cancellation of its police show, Live PD, exposed a suppurating inoperable tumor in the network’s gut: a penchant for bigotry, violence and sensationalism. That penchant spawned an ultimately fatal addiction to shows featuring crime on the one hand, while whitewashing discrimination and hatred of minority religions on the other.
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Lights! Camera! Death!—A&E’s Role in Ending the Life of Javier Ambler
Juvenal, the ancient Roman poet, had a phrase for it: “Bread and circuses.” By that he meant keep the rabble distracted from their woes with entertainment of the grossest kind .
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Would Javier Ambler Still Be Alive Today if A&E Cameras Hadn’t Been Rolling?
Just this week, the world learned that A&E Live PD cameras were rolling while African-American Javier Ambler died as sheriff’s deputies forcibly restrained him. Ambler, who was unarmed, was tasered four times and could be heard saying “I can’t breathe” and “save me” before he died. A&E has destroyed the footage.
