Congressional blackmail behind the pulling of the Reagan mini series.

[loudnclear]

Money and the cabal that controls our Congress threatened CBS with legislative punishment if mini series not pulled. FCC rules that favor networks owning more and more was threatened.

[DBoon]

1. Link? Reference?

Other than speculation?

[displacedtexan]

2. msnbc

discussing it now.

[arcane1]

3. so NOW is it finally censorship??

:shrug:

[Cocoa]

4. but they said it was a "grassroots" thing

:-)

[Nadienne]

5. Which is why it always surprises me

that people believe the media is liberal. Hah! Commercials pay for programming. Big business (for the most part) makes the commercials. The bu** sh** on TV every day is brought to us courtesy of the corporate elite.

Liberal media? I'll believe it when I see it!

[AngryYoungMan]

6. Is this material on the web yet?

Does anyone know? I'd love to see it in print, off a newswire or something.

[brook]

12. Jerry Nachman...

said that this is what happened when he was on either Keith Oberman's or Aaron Brown's show last night.

[Brian Sweat]

7. Got proof?

[fencesitter]

8. huh? what?

I heard they pulled the mini-series on the noontime news, but I thought Reagan is and was the republican darling, the hero, the man. why was this pulled?

[DCDemo]

9. Some conservative in the House

I think..perhaps Senate...announced that they would seek to pull CBS's license to broadcast....which is CLEARLY Censorship - threats from the FEDERAL Legistlative branch.

[cosmicdot]

10. doubt if blackmailers would put it in writing and "cc" the world

if the world operated like that ... we'd know all involved in killing JFK, MLK, RFK; have the goods on the October Surprise, the Octopus, etc. ....................................

this MSNBC article alludes to backroom shenanigans

"Showtime and CBS are both owned by Viacom, which is anxiously awaiting federal action on rules to restrict ownership of local TV stations. Failure to enact such changes could cost Viacom millions of dollars, said Jeff Chester, head of the Center for Digital Democracy, a communications lobbying group.

"Viacom needs help from Republicans in the White House and Congress who might not like seeing Reagan portrayed negatively, Chester said.

POLITICAL PRESSURE

“They made a business decision,” he said. “In doing so, they clearly caved in to the political pressure.”

http://www.msnbc.com/news/988680.asp?0bl=-0

Poll, also, at above link

Do you think CBS was correct to pull "The Reagans"?
* 27200 responses
Yes
49%
No
51%

[DUreader]

11. kick