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  • "Just the facts, ma'am" may have worked for Detective Joe Friday in Dragnet, but it doesn't work for Glenn Beck and Keith Olbermann.

    Charles Alexander: Exposed: Global Warming Deniers Charles Alexander 2010

  • "Just the facts, ma'am" may have worked for Detective Joe Friday in Dragnet, but it doesn't work for Glenn Beck and Keith Olbermann.

    Charles Alexander: Exposed: Global Warming Deniers Charles Alexander 2010

  • "Just the facts, ma'am" may have worked for Detective Joe Friday in Dragnet, but it doesn't work for Glenn Beck and Keith Olbermann.

    Charles Alexander: Exposed: Global Warming Deniers Charles Alexander 2010

  • "Just the facts, ma'am" may have worked for Detective Joe Friday in Dragnet, but it doesn't work for Glenn Beck and Keith Olbermann.

    Charles Alexander: Exposed: Global Warming Deniers Charles Alexander 2010

  • "Just the facts, ma'am" may have worked for Detective Joe Friday in Dragnet, but it doesn't work for Glenn Beck and Keith Olbermann.

    Charles Alexander: Exposed: Global Warming Deniers Charles Alexander 2010

  • If the LAPD's old headquarters, Welton Becket's crisply modern, almost delicate 1955 Parker Center, came to represent the "Dragnet" - era city and a simpler approach to policing, its new one, despite its lesser achievement as a piece of architecture, is freighted with symbolism far more complex.

    unknown title 2009

  • If the LAPD's old headquarters, Welton Becket's crisply modern, almost delicate 1955 Parker Center, came to represent the "Dragnet" - era city and a simpler approach to policing, its new one, despite its lesser achievement as a piece of architecture, is freighted with symbolism far more complex.

    unknown title 2009

  • As if the 'twist' Shyamalan flicks are known for wasn't corny enough, the test audiences apparently needed another gimmick, the 'Dragnet'-style police report.

    MIND MELD: The Best Superhero Movie and TV Show 2008

  • To paraphrase Dragnet's Jack Webb, in the 2010 edition, which debuted on September 20th on CBS, the names have not been changed, but the plot has been dumbed down to an America that can only seem to digest Ramboesque testosterone-laced action and simple plot lines.

    Brian Ross: Hawaii Five-O Measures A Different America 2010

  • To paraphrase Dragnet's Jack Webb, in the 2010 edition, which debuted on September 20th on CBS, the names have not been changed, but the plot has been dumbed down to an America that can only seem to digest Ramboesque testosterone-laced action and simple plot lines.

    Brian Ross: Hawaii Five-O Measures a Different America 2010

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