cbs may cancel 'the reagans'

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

once again, the rw intimidators win?

file this under: 'liberal media, my ass!'


CBS Mulls Canceling Reagan Mini-Series - Report


LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - CBS is considering canceling or postponing its upcoming mini-series "The Reagans" under mounting Republican criticism that the production inaccurately depicts the former president and his wife, Daily Variety reported on Monday.


Also, the director of the four-hour TV movie, Robert Allan Ackerman, has quit the production over creative differences with CBS executives who have insisted on numerous last-minute alterations to the mini-series, the Hollywood trade paper said.


Depending on the nature of the final cuts, Ackerman may ask the Directors Guild of America to remove his name from the movie in protest, Variety said.

CBS Chairman Leslie Moonves acknowledged on CNBC last week that "there are some edits being made trying to present a more fair picture of the Reagans."


"We've looked at the rough cut. There are things we like ... there are things we don't like ... there are things we think go too far," he told the cable news channel.


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[Fixated]

1. ....

What a bunch of pussies.

[theboss]

25. If a movie I wouldn't watch is cancelled . . .

. . . does James Brolin still get paid.

Frankly, I don't understand any of what happened with this movie. From the casting to the controversy, this whole thing was bizarre. My feeling is CBS should have revised the script at the beginning or stood up to the pressure. I don't like the fact that "art" (if something involing James Brolin can be tagged that) can get altered after the fact in the face of criticism, unless something truly horrifying was produced.

But at the end of the day, I really don't care since you couldn't pay me to watch it.

[kixot]

2. So much for freedom of speech

I think it was Al Franken who said on the Randi Rhodes show that satire is protected under the first amendment even if the person(s) being satirized doesn't get it.

[Silverhair]

20. This isn't a first amendment issue.

It is a threatened boycott. You can boycott someone for any damn reason you want to, or even no reason for that matter. It is their right not to watch CBS or buy the sponsor's products, just as it is our right to watch and buy them. Probably Hallmark got scared, as did other sponsors. No major sponsor wants to be associated with something that is highly controversial. So advertising rates for the show plummeted to the point that reruns of "I Love Lucy" would have made more money. It was a $$$$$$ decision. $$$$ talks, bullshit walks.

[onebigbadwulf]

3. They

won't cancel it, worst comes to worst they will sell it to showtime.

[ikojo]

4. The right wing wins because they have a lot of media

outlets and they stay on message. Imagine a miniseries on Clinton. Eight years would be boiled down to a BJ in the oval office and a failed real estate deal.

The right repeat the same message on all of their different talk shows. It's a method liberals could stand to imitate. Anger seems to work. Niceness sure doesn't that's for sure.

[tom_paine]

6. Yep, unfortunately creating a Party-Loyal Sub-Media is antithetical

to the American Experiment.

The simple fact that we are dreaming and wishing that we had such an evil tools, is a sign that the Old American Republic has played out it's course.

But now that the Reich Wing has theirs, we can do nothing but try and belatedly create ours.

In either case, this is a signpost pointing neon to the Downfall of the American Republic.

[KFC]

5. I doubt I could sit through it anyway

Unless Nancy is constantly flipping out or there is some sort of action. My guess is that it will be boring as hell.

[leftofthedial]

7. This is reprehensible

"there are some edits being made trying to present a more fair picture of the Reagans."

more fair? you mean they plan to show him drinking the blood of a fe of the hundreds of thousands of Central AMericans slaughtered under his policies? Or maybe show him filling his depends during Cabinet meetings?

No way were they going to show the POS half as bad as he really was.

[gulliver]

8. Can't offend the only audience it could possibly draw.

Only Reagan fans would be interested anyway. CBS isn't in the truth game; they are in television.

[DrWeird]

9. Before you go mailing off a letter to CBS...

understand that you shouldn't bother trying to appeal to them with the free speech argument, or integrety in the media. They don't give a shit about that. The only thing they care about is advertisers. So let them know you want to see it, and you'll spend money on the advertisers, and, btw, you've also sent off a copy of this letter to said advertisers.

[cmf]

10. I sent them an email supporting the movie as is.

At the end I said something to the effect, "We all know that the right's definition of 'fair and balanced' is skewed."

[Vext]

11. I sent CBS an email asking them to

"Bring it On"

[ikojo]

12. Too bad Leni Riefenstahl is dead or else the right-wingers

could just go to an expert on propaganda.

[Snellius]

13. I wish Rather, Letterman, 60 Minutes would quit

If networks can't be independent, why bother to pretend? Just give it all to the RNC or Murdoch and see how many viewers they get. 24/7 Bush TV. Maybe someday some country will come to liberate us.

[mzmolly]

14. Liberal Media My Ass is right...

GRRRRR!

We should write them and demand they tell the truth, what ever that truth is.

[rucky]

15. Would Anybody Here Have Watched it?

I certainly would not have.

[mzmolly]

17. Oh, yes... I love dirt.

:crazy: That is if I can pull my arse away from DU

[David Zephyr]

16. It's Called Censorship.

Get really used to it.

[oasis]

27. Raygun opposed tinkering with the media.

[Silverhair]

28. Censorship is when the gov't does it. When a corp..

does it, then it is called business. They want to sell advertising. They are not in the business of political advocacy. The advertisers don't want to antagonize either side and lose buyers, so the advertising rates for "hot" programs is lower than for bland programs.

[Junkdrawer]

18. This whole incident smelled from the start as a way to repair...

Dittohead morale after the Limbaugh fiasco. With Rush on ice, something had to be done.

[Festivito]

19. I bet Bill Bob Tim Ted are being named on Puke spam emails.

Those rePukeLieCans can have hundreds of emails arrive signed by differently named people.

[Deja Q]

21. Censorship and aiding and abetting FASCISM

Fuck 'em. x(

[hippie_chic]

22. Looks like...

They are already breaking out the champagne on RayGun's bulletin board. x(

http://www.ronaldreagan.com/ubb/ultimatebb.php

[spanone]

23. Has ANYBODY?? seen this show? Don't we have the right to

change the fucking channel?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????Censorship.

[tridim]

24. MoveOn.org or a similar group

should buy commercial time during the edited show and stick it to the Gipper, hard. There are plenty of indisputable facts about Reagan's record that I'm sure the series wont touch. Oh, wouldn't that be sweet.

[Cooley Hurd]

26. Drudge says it's a done deal...

...up on his page now. Showtime might air it uncut...