Word: amerika
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ANYONE WHO has read a newspaper or magazine during the last few weeks knows that Amerika threatens to slant this country's perceptions of the Soviets and contribute to the xenophobia of our allegedly tolerant society...
...UNITED Nations and its partisans have been mounting an energetic campaign to protect the world organization from the treatment it gets in an upcoming television mini-series. The reason? The series--Amerika--is a demented fantasy of an America cowed by a Soviet-controlled contingent of dark-skinned U.N. "peace-keeping" troops...
...widely reported several months ago that the U.N. would try to keep Amerika off the air. But Theodore Sorenson, the lawyer representing the U.N. in the matter, recently told the New York Times that his client will forgoe the unprecedented legal battle that would be necessary to block the ABC show from hitting the airwaves...
...pathetic--and a lot revealing--that the U.N. is willing to sell out democratic principles over something as tawdry as a flashy T.V. drama. According to early reports, Amerika concerns itself with the sexual misadventures of its the wife of its handsome hero as much as with geopolitical commentary. And the wrong the U.N. will be made to suffer? The tasteless appropriation of its logo. How did things ever get this...
...Amerika's sexual innuendo and Dukes of Hazard pace will attract plenty of attention to its rabidly nationalist message. The show certainly didn't go looking for the threat of a U.N. law suit to attract even more attention. The U.N. was happy to provide the threat of a law suit--and probably a Nielson boost--anyway...