A few days ago, an email came across from PR powerhouse Howard Rubenstein’s shop promoting a new television show. 

On April 2, the new original series “DEA” will premiere on Spike TV, produced by Al Roker Entertainment with unprecedented cooperation with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and undercover agents. 

“DEA” offers viewers a never-before-seen look at the inner workings of the undercover world of drugs, with exclusive access during each episode as cameras follow a group of Special Agents and Task Force Officers in the DEA Detroit division as they risk their lives in the daily ongoing battle against illegal drugs.

The series follows Special Agents as they work cases ranging from street level dealers to international drug traffickers.

I hope this is something you may be interested in posting on your web site.  Thanks.

Clearly, they missed the point of my blawg. 

Al Roker, the formerly rotund and jolly weatherman, had gastric bypass surgery and turned into an aggressive TV producer.  An ill-wind blew him my way with this effort to cash in on this COPS take off, designed to turn the Drug Enforcement Agency, one of the more violent and dirty arms of government, into the next beloved Angel of public safety. 

Do you doubt that this is a total lovefest?  Watch the preview.  Dontcha just wanna hug ’em?

So I wondered, will it show the DEA agents busting heads?  Will it show them coercing confessions?  What about executing search warrants at the wrong house, and beating some innocent elderly woman “just to be safe?” 

No, this will be another show designed to assure the public that their law enforcement agents would never lie, cheat or steal.  They would never commit perjury to frame anybody.  They would never beat innocent people.  These things never happen.

When I told  Mark Bennett that I had received this email, he asked me if I was really going to “promote” this mutt of a show by blawging about it.  It’s not like I’m going to make this show go away by ignoring it, so yes, here it is.  If you don’t know about the garbage that will influence the public, then you can’t address it.

I wonder if Al would care to do a show about people who were wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death?  We already have enough material for 214 shows.