Comments on the West Wing story line

[Paul lavely <lavelyp@UCLINK4.BERKELEY.EDU>]

Ruth Weiner wrote that:



>I have never seen West Wing before, and I likely

>won't watch it again, because TV is such a waste of time, but the truck

>crash appeared to be completely extraneous to the story lines..  It seems

>pretty clear that this is an effort to mobilize public opposition to Yucca

>Mountain and that's why it was aired when it was. However, there really

>wasn't much in it to get media attention (though the media can blow anything

>out of proportion).

>



and



>Why should West Wing have talked about such an accident at all, when 

>it was clearly extraneous to any story line?

>  Ruth





Well if you have never seen a previous episode of West Wing and do 

not know that each week there are small (and this one was small) 

subplots (Navy ships in a hurricane, a kidnapping, dating habits of 

the President's child) how do you reach the conclusion that this rad 

issue was included for effect and was timed to have an effect?



A little research into the show would answer your question as to "Why 

should West Wing have talked about such an accident at all . . ." 

West Wing would be REALLY dull if all we were to see is staffers 

answering phones, speech writers writing speeches, press briefings, 

and the President going from place to place to make speeches or for 

photo opportunities. The West Wing is about subplots laid over the 

basic theme of "what goes on in the West Wing."



Since you are an expert on transportation, make your comments to the 

network, make your comments to the media, make your comments to 

governmental representatives and the public, but you may want to know 

a little more about the show before trying to get them to believe 

that it was "was clearly extraneous to any story line . . . "







  Paul Lavely <lavelyp@uclink4.berkeley.edu>

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