Posted on 10/16/2015 11:01:52 AM PDT by abb
CBS has refused to run advertising for Truth, the film starring Cate Blanchett and Robert Redford that revisits a painful episode in the network's past involving a discredited 2004 news story on former President George W. Bush's military service record.
CBS has denounced the movie, which opens Friday, as a disservice to the public and journalists.
Redford plays Dan Rather in Truth, with Blanchett as producer Mary Mapes. Together, they were behind a 60 Minutes II story that questioned Bush's Vietnam War-era commitment to service in the Texas Air National Guard. But CBS apologized for the story after documents used were called into question and could not be verified. Mapes and three news executives were fired.
Sony Pictures Classics sought a multi-million dollar ad buy to promote the film on Stephen Colbert's Late Show, the CBS Evening News, CBS This Morning and 60 Minutes, but was turned down, said Sherri Callan, president of Callan Advertising, the company that places ads for Sony.
Instead, Sony is advertising on ABC, NBC, Fox and several cable networks. CBS, which confirmed the rejection, told Callan it was not comfortable accepting the ads because of inaccuracies and distortions in the movie, and that it would offend longtime CBS News employees.
"It's astounding how little truth there is in Truth," said Gil Schwartz, longtime chief spokesman for CBS Corp. and a character in the movie. "There are, in fact, too many distortions, evasions and baseless conspiracy theories to enumerate them all. The film tries to turn gross errors of journalism and judgment into acts of heroism and martyrdom.
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Right.
Do you write children’s books too? You should.
The movie was based on Mapes’ book, so of course she’s going to turn herself into the victim.....and of course, the film will follow suit.
Granted the self-serving nature of CBS’s motives, it is notable that CBS and not Fox is boycotting Pravda (which is Russian for “Truth”).
The correct title for this movie would be more like "Evasion of Truth."
LOL. Are you really that naive about the Rove/Schmidt GOPe NWO Bushies?
Let’s just see if Vanderbilt and company spell out who exactly created the fake document.
I”m just missing the sarcasm tag, right? - LOL!
Let’s put it this way. Once the Bushies Schmidt and Wallace submarined Sarah Palin while they were working for McCain/Palin in 2008 (and onward for the past seven years), the Bush Rove GOPe subterfuge began to be revealed.
If I’m wrong, and Rove did not concoct the fake document in order to draw attention to CBS/Rather and away from the real, election year questions about Bush’s National Guard status, then who did?
LOL (with a little /s because it is so sad how we conservative have been played by the Rove Bush GOPe for so long)
As Rush has taught us... words mean things. So I take the Bushies for their word on anti-sovereignty, open borders and Amnesty, NWO issues. Do you?
I remember the movie “The Chase” with Marlon Brando & Angie Dickinson. Redford had a nice part in that.
Bulkhead??
Nope, Buckhead. Bet he is not mentioned in the movie, nor will Frer Republic be mentioned. But “truth” is FR is the reason that lie ever got exposed.
Did Rush really do that? I’m surprised that anyone even remembers it. Yes FR took him down.
There’s no pravda in the Izvestia, and there’s no izvestia in the Pravda.
Yeah, it was autocorrect messing me up. I was using my phone. I was on that first thread less than an hour after the CBS broadcast ended. It was amazing. those documents were fake as surely as the sun sets in the west. It is insulting when anyone that claims to know about the issue says the documents were questionable.
No. They were not questionable. No questions remain. One may as well see a corvette rolling off the assembly line at Bowling Green KY and say, “Well, the manufacturer of this car is now questionable.”
No, all doubt has been removed. And Buckhead started it.
And yeah, I used a different name back then. I’ve been here since 1998.
Just to set the record straight...
the judge threw him out of court
Clearly not, from the looks of his pictures.
Does this movie mention Free Republic and Buckhead?
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