Censoring 9/11 to Help Hillary
By Michael Medved
Last September, the excellent ABC miniseries "The Path to 9/11," drew a huge audience of 25 million people, but the Disney Company that owns the project has so far refused to make it available on DVD.
Writer-producer Cyrus Nowrasteh says he heard from a top executive that they won't release it due to fears it would harm Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign--because the mini-series accurately portrays the inaction of President Bill Clinton in the face of the mounting terrorist threat. The shocking censorship of a significant, potentially profitable TV production shows that two widespread beliefs about Hollywood aren't true:
-No, it's not always about money--on occasion, top executives will sacrifice profit for the sake of political correctness.
-And second, the entertainment industry isn't really committed to unfettered free expression. When it suits their purposes, as with "The Path to 9/11" or the attempt to impose the so-called "Fairness Doctrine," they'd rather stifle disagreements than answer them.
Last September, the excellent ABC miniseries "The Path to 9/11," drew a huge audience of 25 million people, but the Disney Company that owns the project has so far refused to make it available on DVD.
Writer-producer Cyrus Nowrasteh says he heard from a top executive that they won't release it due to fears it would harm Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign--because the mini-series accurately portrays the inaction of President Bill Clinton in the face of the mounting terrorist threat. The shocking censorship of a significant, potentially profitable TV production shows that two widespread beliefs about Hollywood aren't true:
-No, it's not always about money--on occasion, top executives will sacrifice profit for the sake of political correctness.
-And second, the entertainment industry isn't really committed to unfettered free expression. When it suits their purposes, as with "The Path to 9/11" or the attempt to impose the so-called "Fairness Doctrine," they'd rather stifle disagreements than answer them.
posted by HeavyHanded at
8:29 AM
1 Comments:
Surprise, surprise. I was just thinking this morning of how the Democrats denigrated Ronald Reagan as being 'just an actor' and now glorify any Hollywood name that spouts the party line as being oh so knowledgeable and intelligent.
Yet, they remain preoccupied with Republican 'hypocrisy' for having standards higher than some Republicans are always able to achieve as opposed to their own proclivity for lowering their 'standards' as far as necessary to excuse the behavior of their own.
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