Hollywood and Obama's Foreign policy

My comments on Homeland (Showtime) Hostages (CBS)

article, ""CIA Does Hollywood""
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15905

article, ""Homeland and the Imagination of Homeland Security""
http://jacobinmag.com/2013/11/homeland-and-the-imagination-of-national-security/

The article from Jacobin particularly surprised me, and while I see their point, I do not agree with all of it.  I see these shows, especially Homeland (Showtime) and Hostages (CBS) as criticizing parts of Obama's policies, praising others, along with interesting guesses and fun dramas.  I see Homeland as a show against drones, not as the Jacobin article says, shows Obama's pivot to focus on lone, homegrown terrorists or recent converts to Islam ""If Obama’s policy involved a shift in focus onto the “homegrown” terrorist, Brody came to personify what happens to good Americans when they adopt Islam.""

The show began with a POW Nick Brody found alive after 8 years, returned home, who is secretly bent on killing the Vice President, who as former CIA chief ordered a drone strike on a school that killed the son of the terrorist that befriended him during his captivity.  Some obvious weirdness there, a soldier befriends his captor and terrorist and comes home to kill.  But two things stuck with me---one was the drone strike as Brody's motivation, killing the child he had grown fond of, and Two, even more amazing in a weird way, was his insistence that no, he was not a terrorist, but simply keeping his oath to ""protect and defend the Constitution from enemies foreign and domestic""----WOW, taking the law into his own hands, with twisted logic, but still, wow.



Hostages on CBS is another show, which focuses on the storyline that the ""President has to die because of......""  when I found out in episode 4 that the story was about the NSA, and the president wanting to end and expose an unconstitutional program called ""Operation Total Information,"" which seems based on BOUNDLESSINFORMANT, my first thought was WHEN was this written, shot, filmed???!!!!!

this was either prescience or quick production after Snowden's revelations started in June.

but the fallout that occurs from these two ideas, drones in Homeland and NSA in Hostages (almost every plan to fix the problems just makes things worse) seems a critique of Obama's policies where they are wrong, NOT a Hollywood collusion to sell Obama's shift in policy as better than that of Bush.