Ed. Note: A couple of weeks ago I posted a piece from a guest and mentioned that I had originally intended to share this soapbox, although no one had taken me up on the offer. Well – it turns out there’s another blogger wannabe out there. Below is our first contribution from Loki. Please make him feel welcome in this corner of the blogosphere.

Tonight on NBC we will have a two hour ‘Law and Order LA’ show. The hoped for resurrection of the original ‘Law and Order’ series. This may be the final death throes of what once was a great TV series.

What happened to bring this TV series to its’ knees. Did the public get tired of the series, did the story line get too tiresome? Or was it something else. One has to ponder did the series collapse because of its’ creators and the Hollywood bias. From the first show L&O had a novel approach. The crime, the investigation and the prosecution. It was not a star driven series as shown by the various replacement characters through the years. Every character from the original show was replaced and yet the series continued. But falling ratings forced a revision by the show’s producers. They dropped not only all of the present characters but even the city of New York and moved the show to LA hoping for a revival. And yet the viewership continued to fall.

Tonight they will change the characters around and bring back one of the prosecutors from the New York show in a final bid to resuscitate the show.

But I think it is the viewers who have changed. They have grown tied of the continuing liberal bias of the show. At first the viewers may not have recognized the liberal bias. But through the years the bias has not only continued but become more blatant. Business corporations were a frequent target as were the rich. Right wing Christians were attacked as well as those opposed to abortion. The liberal simplistic view of all conservatives as stupid bigoted blind faith following Christians was amply portrayed as killers of the peace loving liberals. After 9/11 a few fanatic Muslims were portrayed but far more attacks of peace loving Muslims by white Christian bigots were shown. Minorities were frequently the victims of white bigots. The final show twists were no more unexpected but boring regurgitations of liberalism.

So the producers did what all Hollywood liberals do. They asked all their friends what they think and having no conservative friends they doubled their efforts to please those they know and increased the bias. From the very first episode of ‘Law and Order LA’ the show went farther to the left. And moderate Americans and conservatives abandoned the show from boredom. Instead of taking the stories from the headlines and adding a twist they took their storylines from their own biased thinking and added nothing.

It is sad. Even with the bias it was once an enjoyable show. But the producers and NBC blindly followed their own bias and killed the show. Now one has to wonder if NBC will follow the same path with their falling ratings into the same trash bin where ‘Law and Order’ is headed.

Tonight we will find out.

Loki