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Now if they don't get their heads out of their butts SVU will be next with their pro-lifers suck attitudes. I do still watch Criminal Intent though I miss "Edgar". I remember that actor in the original "Men In Black" and now that Goldblume took over it is still good but not as intense.

How sad! Liberals mess everything up.

So when you base a fiction piece on something in real life, you are substituting the real person's internal thoughts with those created or assumed by the writer. Although the character's outward actions might be the same as the real person's, the fictionalized character thinks only what the writer wants him to think. He's still the writer's creation.

They make a "compelling" drama out of it, admittedly, but this is likely to shape subtly the viewer's outlook on the real issue at hand. When you watch this fictionalized version, you are emotionally manipulated (at least, if the writer's any good) to come to the judgement on the character the writer wants you to have. But since it's made to imitate a real person and a real issue, the viewer is pushed to transfer that judgement to the real version.

It's a dangerous way to influence public debate. It substitutes opinions on fiction for opinions on reality. And fiction is written to direct you to a predetermined outcome.

One last note: a terrific[ally bad] example of this was a made-for-TV movie on the Clarence Thomas/Anita Hill debate some years ago. I heard the writer or director interviewed on NPR, saying that he wanted to present both sides and let the viewer decide whom to believe. But one scene in the movie has Anita Hill learning of Thomas' nomination from TV, and she (watching this alone) reacts something like, "That's the guy who harassed me!" Yet one of the issues being debated in the real case was whether he'd done any such thing at all–and whether Hill was being pushed by Senate liberals to accuse him falsely. It's essentially the fallacy of "complex question": the drama is premised on a fact that was actually in dispute.

Similarly, SNL's (admittedly funny) skit of the Thomas hearings had Thomas admitting to one of the harassment incidents, when in reality he disputed them.

Of course, then Tony does something that earns him a Gibbs-slap and order is restored to the Universe.

A writer for Big Hollywood reports that the Law & Order TV series, one of the most pretentious would-be crime dramas ever made because of its bizarre leftist slant, has really done it this time…