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ClandesTime 224 – The Rewriting of The Rookie

By Tom SeckerPodcast

The third season of the popular LAPD-supported cop show The Rookie is markedly different to its first two seasons. Or…

23rd November 2021

Stay Out of Trouble – Robocop and the DEA

By Tom SeckerDocuments

In what has to be one of the most bizarre Hollywood-government collaborations, the DEA once made a PSA video aimed…

14th March 2021

Homeland Security in Hollywood: How the Dept Controls Its Image On Screen

By Tom SeckerDocuments

In my latest article for Shadowproof I delve into the Department of Homeland Security’s Hollywood office, which works on everything…

4th September 2020

Subscribercast #42 – Systemic Racism and Cop Shows

By Tom SeckerPodcast

How much responsibility does the TV crime genre have for police racism, brutality and corruption? On this month’s subscriber-only podcast…

14th June 2020

The DEA and Breaking Bad: Why Hank Never Tapped Jesse’s Phone

By Tom SeckerDocuments

Despite its enormous popularity there are many problems with Breaking Bad – the utterly racist depiction of Mexicans, the glorifying…

12th June 2019

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Tom is a British-based journalist, author, and podcaster. His specialities include the security services, Hollywood, propaganda, censorship and the history of terrorism. Tom’s writing and research has appeared in The Mirror, The Express, RT, Salon, Newsweek, The Atlantic, The Independent, Harpers, Insurge Intelligence, Shadowproof, TechDirt and elsewhere.

Tom lives on the Lancashire coast and is a proud Northerner. His favourite spy is Eddie Chapman a.k.a. Agent Zigzag. He may or may not sleep with a gun under his pillow.

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