$500,000 Grant To Promote Obamacare In TV Scripts

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The health care overhaul might get a Hollywood rewrite.

The California Endowment, a private foundation that is spending millions to promote President Barack Obama’s signature law, recently provided a $500,000 grant to ensure TV writers and producers have information about the Affordable Care Act that can be stitched into plot lines watched by millions.

The aim is to produce compelling prime-time narratives that encourage Americans to enroll, especially the young and healthy, Hispanics and other key demographic groups needed to make the overhaul a success.

“We know from research that when people watch entertainment television, even if they know it’s fiction, they tend to believe that the factual stuff is actually factual,” said Martin Kaplan of the University of Southern California’s Norman Lear Center, which received the grant.

The public typically gets as much, if not more, information about current events from favorite TV programs as mainstream news outlets, Kaplan said, so “people learn from these shows.”

California Republican strategist Jonathan Wilcox, who has taught a course on politics and celebrity at USC, said the attempt to engage Hollywood was coming too late to influence views, and he doubted fictionalized TV would play into families’ decisions about health care. “This is an attempt to use entertainment pop culture to fix a political challenge,” he said. “It will be received as a partisan political message, no matter how cleverly it’s delivered.”

Hollywood is known for supporting Democratic candidates and causes — Will Ferrell and Amy Poehler are among a long list of celebrities who have made a pitch for the law — but there is no guarantee the entertainment industry will be in lockstep with the White House on health care.

Just last week, a “South Park” episode was largely devoted to mocking a malfunctioning website billed as a “simple, integrated portal” for health services. When it’s being demonstrated for students, a laptop instead starts playing Lionel Richie’s “All Night Long (All Night).”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...1dbd72-455d-11e3-95a9-3f15b5618ba8_story.html

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Let the indoctrination begin....
 
The health care overhaul might get a Hollywood rewrite.

The California Endowment, a private foundation that is spending millions to promote President Barack Obama’s signature law, recently provided a $500,000 grant to ensure TV writers and producers have information about the Affordable Care Act that can be stitched into plot lines watched by millions.

The aim is to produce compelling prime-time narratives that encourage Americans to enroll, especially the young and healthy, Hispanics and other key demographic groups needed to make the overhaul a success.

“We know from research that when people watch entertainment television, even if they know it’s fiction, they tend to believe that the factual stuff is actually factual,” said Martin Kaplan of the University of Southern California’s Norman Lear Center, which received the grant.

The public typically gets as much, if not more, information about current events from favorite TV programs as mainstream news outlets, Kaplan said, so “people learn from these shows.”

California Republican strategist Jonathan Wilcox, who has taught a course on politics and celebrity at USC, said the attempt to engage Hollywood was coming too late to influence views, and he doubted fictionalized TV would play into families’ decisions about health care. “This is an attempt to use entertainment pop culture to fix a political challenge,” he said. “It will be received as a partisan political message, no matter how cleverly it’s delivered.”

Hollywood is known for supporting Democratic candidates and causes — Will Ferrell and Amy Poehler are among a long list of celebrities who have made a pitch for the law — but there is no guarantee the entertainment industry will be in lockstep with the White House on health care.

Just last week, a “South Park” episode was largely devoted to mocking a malfunctioning website billed as a “simple, integrated portal” for health services. When it’s being demonstrated for students, a laptop instead starts playing Lionel Richie’s “All Night Long (All Night).”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...1dbd72-455d-11e3-95a9-3f15b5618ba8_story.html

indoctrination.jpg


Let the indoctrination begin....
Preaching to the choir. Smart voters will sniff this shit smelling propaganda right out and change the channel.
 
Weren't the pinheads just last month, bitching about the right running pro-conservative spots on TV ?

At least the cons weren't using taxpayer's money.....

Ironic....the taxpayers get to pay for their own brainwashing....

'Fundamentally change the United States.....?....Indeed.
 
Preaching to the choir. Smart voters will sniff this shit smelling propaganda right out and change the channel.

Unfortunately, the smart voters are outnumbered buy the dipshit voters like Deshy. This shit will work unfortunately. Obama knows how to play to the low information voter. That was his whole schtick during the 2012 campaign. Going on Leno, Letterman, Jon Stewart, he was appealing to his base which is the low information voter. He has written off middle class whites. Middle class whites are his enemy. He is hateful of America and all it stands for.

He learned this hatred at the knee of his daddy Frank Marshal Davis

This is a nice read for you

http://www.aim.org/aim-column/frank-marshall-davis-exposed/

The whole flap about Obama and his birth certificate was a ruse created by Obama. He was happy to have people think he was born in Kenya. It helped cover up his forged birth certificate which shows that Frank Marshall Davis is Obama's real daddy. It would have been a bigger problem for Obama having a known commie as a daddy than being born in Kenya.

I am sure that Obama used the Kenyan thing to grease the skids through school.

One day America will find out what a real manchurian candidate Obama really was. Sad really
 
Weren't the pinheads just last month, bitching about the right running pro-conservative spots on TV ?

At least the cons weren't using taxpayer's money.....

Ironic....the taxpayers get to pay for their own brainwashing....

'Fundamentally change the United States.....?....Indeed.

It says right in the first post that it was a PRIVATE FOUNDATION. Did you not read it?
 
"a private foundation that is spending millions to promote President Barack Obama’s signature law, recently provided a $500,000 grant to ensure TV writers and producers have information about the Affordable Care Act"

Are you stating that private foundations shouldn't promote "information about the Affordable Care Act"?

I know that you Right Wingers hate Information. Unless it is InfoWarsformation......
 
I would like to compare this to Fox news paying hundreds of bloggers to argue their perspective.

The Left is paying money to ensure people get information.

The Right is paying money to ensure people think there are really people out there that believe Fox News.
 
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