News Coverage of 'Primetime Torture' Campaign

Does '24' encourage US interrogators to 'torture' detainees? - 2/12/07
Christian Science Monitor - http://www.csmonitor.com/
2007/0212/p99s01-duts.html
The Fox Broadcasting Company television show "24," which for the past five years has detailed "a single, panic-laced day" in which Jack Bau er – a heroic counter-terrorism agent, played by Kiefer Sutherland – must stop "a conspiracy that imperils the nation," is one of the US's most popular shows. But it may also be encouraging real-life interrogators to "go too far" when they question terrorist suspects.

'24' gets a lesson in torture from the experts - 2/13/07
LA Times - http://www.latimes.com/
entertainment/news/tv/la-et-torture13feb13,1,6701156,full.story?
ctrack=1&cset=true
Hollywood is notorious for its meetings, but even by L.A. standards this one was unusual. A few steps away from the CTU set of Fox's "24," an unlikely alliance of human rights activists, the dean of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and veteran interrogators with experience stretching from Saigon to Abu Ghraib gathered around two tables in mid-November.

US military tells Jack Bauer: Cut out the torture scenes, or else! - 02/13/07
The Independent - http://news.independent.co.uk/
world/americas/article2264632.ece
In the hugely popular television series 24, federal agent Jack Bauer always gets his man, even if he has to play a little rough.

‘24’ Tamps Down the Torture - 2/15/07
Philadelphia Inquirer - http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/magazine/daily/16700918.htm
Fox's 24 will become less torturous, but not because the U.S. military, human rights groups and children's advocates want it to.

 Whatever It Takes - 2/19/07
New Yorker - http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/02/19/070219fa_fact_mayer
The office desk of Joel Surnow—the co-creator and executive producer of “24,” the popular counterterrorism drama on Fox—faces a wall dominated by an American flag in a glass case.

Getting Drilled - 02/23/07
Entertainment Weekly - http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20013220,00.html
Once a trademark of 24 Jack Bauer's relentless use of torture to extract the truth from suspects has become a lightning rod for human rights advocates.

What U.S. Interrogators Learned from TV; 02/27/07
Newsweek - http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17369550/site/newsweek/
Jack Bauer, the fictional federal agent in the hit American TV show "24," gets what he wants—and does whatever it takes to get it.

US TV torture scenes trouble human rights activists - 03/08/07
Reuters - http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N06410040.htm
Desperate to get answers from a terrorism suspect who is refusing to talk, steely eyed U.S. intelligence agent Jack Bauer bursts into an interrogation room and shoots the prisoner in the leg.

Torture’s Wider Use Brings New Concerns - 03/13/07
NPR, All Things Considered - http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=8286003
The Fox Network series 24 features a hero who is not shy about using torture to achieve his objectives. The portrayal of torture as a positive tool worries human-rights watchers as well as the general who heads up West Point. They say the portrayals may be influencing military interrogators