Copaganda

I caught a bit of Chicago PD a while back and was pretty grossed out by how blatantly it paints cops beating suspects and taking shortcuts in due process as not only a good thing, but as necessary to get "the really bad guys." Also the episode where a scummy racist white cop randomly picked a black guy off the street to harass and that black guy ended up actually being being a rapist, murderer, drug dealer, or whatever.

Or national security spy thrillers.

Broadcast TV is basically cop shows, doctor shows, reality tv and news. I've heard more of each of these than shows about rich people. I think the article is an over-complaint.

I checked my local ABC affiliate. News is on from 3am to 10am, noon to 2pm, 4pm to 7pm, and 11pm to 11:30

That's literally the majority of the day on news.

That's kinda the thesis of the whole article.

Stories about rich people where their wealth is part of the plot are getting tired, but more insidiously, stories not involving wealth are still defaulting to very well-off people with expensive homes/furnishings/clothes/style/cars.

i like the one "riches" where conartists pretend to be rich to grift. i dont think the show survived very long.