HBO Told ‘The Pitt’ to Make ICE Storyline More ‘Balanced’
3mon 20d ago by piefed.social/u/Skavau in television@piefed.social from www.thedailybeast.com
The streamer’s top-rated show filmed the episode during its parent company’s attempted merger.
Healthcare workers should not be cooperating with ICE.
Immigration status should make no difference to healthcare.
Uh. See how fast your Medicare funding gets pulled when you refuse to cooperate with the federal government.
Know what happens when a hospital loses federal funding? Immediate closure; practically zero hospitals can function without reimbursement from Medicare/Medicaid.
That being said cooperating with ICE doesn't mean snitching on patients, or holding patients until ICE arrives to take custody.
The only context I could think of in which healthcare would need to cooperate with ICE, is it ICE beings a suspect into the ER for evaluation; in which case it's critical that healthcare cooperate with ICE.
Hey bud that’s fascism
It actually happens quite often when hospitals don't meet the standards set by CMS.
Funny that no one calls it fascism before the hot topic of the day enters the conversation.
If you say so bootlicker
Licking that boot
It's my boot, and it tastes like your tears.
It’s my boot
sure thing kiddo.
You've apparently been licking it so long you're hallucinating.
Fascists should eat shit.
TIL how to use tags
Best use of tags I've seen. lol
A large hospital corporation can easily stand up to the government. Would be a short game of chicken when 30 hospitals close all at once.
Imagine ever thinking that a corporation in charge of 30 hospitals would do anything other than kiss the boot.
A large hospital corporation can easily stand up to the government.
No....no it cannot. No hospital can afford for 50% of their revenue to disappear overnight.
Would be a short game of chicken when 30 hospitals close all at once.
Unrealistic.
“The thing we have to be careful about when we’re talking about any of these issues,” Wells said, “is to make certain that we’re actually presenting both points of view, because we’re not really in the business of preaching to the choir on this show.”
Sure, show both the perspective of victims of fascism, and perpetrators of fascism.
Excuse me, but why is it that they have to show “both points of view”? They can say whatever the hell they want.
Yeah that's true. My point was just that you can show the fascist point of view without glorifying or excusing it.
They must... THEY MUST. Just like how in Game of Thrones they had that one storyline that made you truly sympathize and understand Joffrey Baratheon's motivations. It really brought all of that show together showing him in a positive and supportive light.
It‘s like saying you can‘t make a game about killing Nazis without making Wehrmacht soldiers playable too. What a sick joke.
The point I was trying to make is that they don't really want balance in the sense of showing things from the Nazi's point of view.
What they really want is the Nazi's views to be treated as valid.
In this case specifically I imagine it's like: we don't mind if you talk about ICE as long as you're also talking about the good things they do.
God dammit! No, Wells. You complicit fuck.
You don't have to show both points of view when one is about intentionally harming and intimidating the country under the guise of dealing with immigration. You don't need to give their point of view the implicit agreement that it's a point of view that deserves to be shown or accepted.
Wells, 69, said he notified HBO about the episode because of its parent company’s impending multibillion-dollar merger.
Saying the quiet part out loud there...
“Depict them as literal Gestapo agents? Okay.”
The Pitt has been pretty even handed, ICE so fragile
Snowflakes.
The only context I can imagine for this episode is ICE has a suspect in custody and brings them into the ER for evaluation.
The detainee drops their sob story.
ICE drops their reason.
Much Drama
So Tears
Very TV
Wow.