[Brian Allen]

<< Artistic freedom? I am coming more to the view that in a time in which artistic freedom means anything goes, [Britney Roto-Rootering Madonna in front of 10 million people] the world is filling up with chin-dribble. >>

Wow, Mark Steyne, better watch out.

With paragraphs like that one Mr Henninger is definitely breathing down your neck!

HehHehHeh

[Brian Allen]

ping

[MEG33]

Great column.

[Kangaroo Court]

"Mr. Brolin's wife, who gave up a successful career as a singer and actress to become a Web blogger,. . . ."

Ouch! Good stuff for sure.

[Bonaparte]

Moonves has publicly admitted that the film is "quite biased toward the Reagans." IOW, he acknowledges that it's a hit piece. And yet he's licensing it to showtime so that millions of viewers can be treated to this trash anyway. Afterall, he can't let Viacom take a complete loss on it and there are still some leftist compadres to mollify, aren't there?

If somebody made a film like this about Moonves and his wife and then aired it to millions of people, he would be on the phone with his lawyer in about two seconds.

Viacom should be punished.
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Viacom/Redstone media interests...

CBS
BET
MTV
VH1
Nickeledeon
UPN
Comedy Central
Showtime
Paramount Pictures
Paramount Television
Blockbuster video
Infinity broadcasting (185 radio stations)
Outdoor group (billboards)

Simon & Schuster publishers -- here's a list of all their divisions/imprints and a list of their distributed lines

Sumner Redstone, who owns 68% of Viacom, also holds interest in...

National Amusements theatre chain (Showcase Cinemas, Multiplex Cinemas -- 1400 screens)
Paramount Parks (5 theme parks)
Movietickets.com

[ABG(anybody but Gore)]

Ping!

[BunnySlippers]

I read Daniel Henninger all the time. I never realized he was this funny. Wonderful!

[Beck_isright]

"On the evidence of their recent output, CBS, the New York Times and the BBC had become free-range meadows of liberal-to-leftwing impulses."

Sums it all up quite nicely.

[veronica]

Artistic freedom? I am coming more to the view that in a time in which artistic freedom means anything goes, [Britney Roto-Rootering Madonna in front of 10 million people] the world is filling up with chin-dribble...

Freedom and license are two different things. The license to lie and distort cannot be defended as "freedom."

That by the way is why Holocaust denial/revisionism is illegal in some countries. Holocaust denial/revisionism is a dirty business with an evil intent.

Knowing what I know about Hollywood, I know that Les Moonves knew exactly what he was getting, as this movie had to be in development for over a year. Under any other circumstances a whole chain of people at the network (and the prod. co's) would lose their jobs over a debacle like this one. We'll see if the Libs protect their own now.

[TheEngineer]

It is worth noting that "The Reagans" is now going to appear on the minor cable network called Showtime.

Sounds like it's about time to cancel Showtime from my cable account.