More Ethics of 24.

As previously linked, my questions about the politics of 24 are being shared around the interweb. Here's another good article from Alternet.org. I know it is just a TV show, and call this an unfair generalization, but there are plenty of people out there that (may not admit it to themselves, but still) believe that everything on television is real, based on reality, or at least, sponge up political views and attitudes without knowing it, and as a result, slowly come to think that George W. Bush is a reasonable man, because popular TV fiction has manipulated the boundaries of their tolerance for thin rationalizations and manipulation disguised as cliche. These would be the same people that find it difficult to make distinctions between fiction and non-fiction coming from their TVs, a situation not helped by lowered educational standards and the rise of `reality' TV. Increasingly, much of the world is coming off as versions of Fred Flinstone cloned by aliens, copied, and released in the world only able to robotically parrot `Yabba. Dabba. Doo.'