A reader with notable military experience responds to the New Yorker piece on 24:

What really got me laughing when reading the article was the description of the Army general (one-star, I think) that visited the writers & producers in an attempt to get them to stop showing torture as an effective interrogation technique.
…Now, can you imagine if an Army general showed up at some leftist television show (e.g., just about all the others), and asked them to quit trashing our war effort? The headlines would go something like this: Military Attempts to Intimidate Hollywood — Free Speech “Dead in This Country” Claims Alec Baldwin!

Much like how when a think tank offers to pay scientists for critiques of UN reports on global warming, it gets labeled “bribery.”