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10-19-2015, 07:19 PM
A new film starring Robert Redford as Dan Rather, will be airing soon. It is a rendition of the 2004 CBS scandal when Rather reported negative stories about George W Bush, without properly vetting his source. Those stories were eventually found to be incorrect.
Not only is CBS not going to air this story, they are refusing to run all ads for it.
http://variety.com/2015/film/news/cbs-tr...201620016/
Not only is CBS not going to air this story, they are refusing to run all ads for it.
http://variety.com/2015/film/news/cbs-tr...201620016/
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10-20-2015, 02:29 PM
Well, would you? Should the DNC website allow pop-up ads from Ted Cruz? Or the Catholic church link to pentacostal churches?
It sounds bad, to 'censor' important truths... but I know without a doubt, that if I were CBS CEO.... I'd refuse to allow a movie to be advertised on my stations that, even if TRUTHful, could/would damage the credibility further. And trust me... With CBS's market share in decline, and literally being threatened at this point. It'd be the ultimate form of capitalism, allowing that which is totally disagree with in exchange for profit. Reminds me of the old communist phrase about American capitalism: "They'll sell us the very rope that we hang them with..." CBS isn't known for being 'smart'... but this decision is among the smartest.
It sounds bad, to 'censor' important truths... but I know without a doubt, that if I were CBS CEO.... I'd refuse to allow a movie to be advertised on my stations that, even if TRUTHful, could/would damage the credibility further. And trust me... With CBS's market share in decline, and literally being threatened at this point. It'd be the ultimate form of capitalism, allowing that which is totally disagree with in exchange for profit. Reminds me of the old communist phrase about American capitalism: "They'll sell us the very rope that we hang them with..." CBS isn't known for being 'smart'... but this decision is among the smartest.
10-20-2015, 03:56 PM
“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...
The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance”
......Carl Sagan
The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance”
......Carl Sagan
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