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We don't usually report what's in the National Enquirer, but we have to point out the hypocrisy of the left-wing media establishment, which gladly cited the tabloid's reports on Rush Limbaugh but has been silent on its drug allegations about NBC's Matt Lauer and now new revelations about Democrat diva Barbra Streisand. The Enquirer's Nov. 25 issue charges, "Barbra Streisand's fanatical support of the CBS movie smearing President Ronald Reagan wasn't just politics - it was personal!" Babs' son, Jason Gould, who appeared in her movie "The Prince of Tides," is infected with AIDS, the tabloid says, and she has...

NEW YORK - Showtime will air "The Reagans," the made-for-TV movie that CBS scuttled, on Nov. 30. The cable channel's announcement Monday was unexpected, since it had originally planned to air the movie next year. "We just thought it didn't make sense to prolong this and bring it on next year," said Robert Greenblatt, Showtime entertainment president. "I'm just tired of people making judgments on this when they haven't seen it. Let them see it." Fans of the former president, accusing CBS of distorting Ronald Reagan's legacy while he's sick with Alzheimer's disease, had mounted a furious protest. CBS denied...

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NEW YORK - This was where I was going to review "The Reagans," CBS' much-anticipated miniseries airing Sunday and Tuesday. Except it isn't going to air - not then, not on CBS. I prefer writing about shows that will actually be broadcast and shows that I've screened. But since everyone else has expressed an opinion about this biopic, sight unseen, why shouldn't I? Come to think of it, I'd like to salute CBS for giving "The Reagans" the hook (episodes of "CSI," "CSI: Miami" and "Without a Trace" are now scheduled instead). I think CBS' turn-tail tactic is a win...

The Supreme Court has explicitly held that, “[There is] no constitutional value in false statements of fact.”  Further, false statements “belong to that category of utterances which []are no essential part of any exposition of ideas, and are of such slight social value as a step to truth that any benefit that may be derived from them is clearly outweighed by the social interest in order and morality.” False statements, i.e. the core of defamation, are not protected by the First Amendment.   There is no question that “The Reagans” is a defamatory piece.   The script is out there for all to...

The two liberal panelists on FNC’s Fox Newswatch over the weekend credited/blamed the MRC for CBS’s decision to move it’s The Reagans mini-series to Showtime. Neal Gabler asserted of the decision by CBS Chairman Les Moonves: “He pulled this because right-wing pressure from the Media Research Center, from Matt Drudge, from a number of radio talk show hosts, you know, made this just more trouble than it was worth. And it gave the right-wing veto power over broadcast television.” Jane Hall, a former Los Angeles Times reporter who now teaches journalism as American University, echoed: “There was genuine outrage and...

<p>Those associated with the miniseries claim that it is not a slam but a nuanced portrayal of the former first couple. Some of the less flattering aspects of its portrayal of the former first couple -- President Reagan is depicted as often inattentive and uninformed and Nancy Reagan as controlling and overly interested in astrology -- jibe with accounts by Reagan supporters.</p>

Two Sundays ago, CBS broadcast their grand 75th anniversary celebration. Audiences were reminded of the rich history of a network that has, until now, put artistic integrity and principled news above politics. From I Love Lucy to Murphy Brown in the entertainment arena and from Walter Cronkite to the impressive team behind 60 Minutes in news, we have come to depend on CBS for their high quality programming. As a wonderful recent letter to the New York Times reminded me, it was Edward R. Murrow of CBS who stood up to Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s, "a genuinely risky...

It is simply astounding that some people are spinning the Reagan movie controversy as a censorship issue. The usual left-wing suspects are screaming that the conservatives forced CBS to abandon the project. The New York Times editorialized: "It should have come as no surprise that conservatives, protective of Mr. Reagan's image at all times, would launch one of the fierce assaults that have become so familiar whenever the right wants to scare the media." And Barbra Streisand, an increasingly amusing presence, said, "This is censorship pure and simple." One wonders if The Times and La Streisand would react the same...

<p>The recent battle over the CBS miniseries The Reagans simultaneously demonstrates the American right's new media power and its lingering sense of persecution and impotence. On the one hand, conservatives flexed their muscles with a stunning mobilization of public protest to force the network to cancel plans to broadcast the series in its mid-November "sweeps" period.</p>

CBS may have dumped its slanderous miniseries "The Reagans" onto Showtime, where it will be seen uncut, but the real Reagan story is now in the works. According to the New York Post, the Republican National Committee is planning a new documentary series, expected to be titled the "Real Reagans," which will feature news clips and other historic film clips showing President Reagan and his wife, Nancy, instead of made-up quotes and liberal actors such as Barbra Streisand's husband and a leftist Australian actress playing the former president and Mrs. Reagan. The Post reports that a release date for...

Did CBS chairman Leslie Moonves cave in to political and economic pressure when he canceled 'The Reagans' miniseries? The network honcho vehemently rejects the suggestion, calling it an "absolute lie." "It was a moral decision, not an economic or a political one," Moonves stressed in an interview with Daily Variety. "And I don't know how more plainly I can state that." A network statement issued last week following the cancellation of the controversial miniseries similarly insisted the decision had nothing to do with the backlash from Reagan supporters. "This decision is based solely on our reaction to seeing the final...

CBS dancing to Republican tune ANTONIA ZERBISIAS I'm thinking of having the above photo retaken in order to show the drywall embedded in my forehead. It's a wonder I stopped bashing my head long enough to eke out this column. It's been that kind of week. First, there was CBS's dumping of its sweeps period biopic The Reagans after a right wing-organized backlash, and then, at Thursday's Canadian Journalists For Free Expression awards dinner, I got into a surreal argument with a TV network foreign affairs producer who made the outrageous claim that the U.S. never lied about its motives...

Imagine a frightening world, where all information comes from one source. The people, little more than gray mice, are fed kernels of "truth" which have been processed through a network of like-minded disseminators. Facts become facts based on the will of the source, and the acceptance by the gray mice. And that acceptance is a given. Welcome to the world we used to live in, and all of us were initially indoctrinated to passively accept. Accept the word of the disseminators. They know, we don't; They emit, we absorb. Likeminded filters of reality, providing validity to the perceptions of the...

<p>We hit a milestone with CBS's canceling of "The Reagans."</p> <p>CBS blinked.</p> <p>We hit a milestone in the culture wars last week with the internment of the threatened Ronald Reagan hit job. For once, perhaps for the first time, one of our pre-eminent cultural institutions conceded that the great unwashed had it right. Instead of wrapping itself in the First Amendment right to be irresponsible, the network looked for the least graceless way out.</p>

EVERY TIME you turn around, some industry is writhing and casting about for more internal diversity so it can broaden its viewpoint. Politics craves more women. Engineering seeks more minorities. Medicine wants more left-brained people, and law wants more right-brained people. Now that CBS was shamed into disposing of its laughably left-wing miniseries, “The Reagans,” the entertainment industry has a chance to admit the truth: Hollywood needs more Republicans than just Bruce Willis, Tom Selleck and Charlton Heston, because it drifts so far left it’s in danger of hitting an oncoming car. CBS has a $9 million egg on its...

It is simply astounding that some people are spinning this Reagan movie controversy as a censorship issue. The usual left-wing suspects are screaming the "conservatives" forced CBS to abandon the project. The New York Times editorialized, "It should have come as no surprise that conservatives, protective of Mr. Reagan's image at all times, would launch on the fierce assaults that have become so familiar whenever the right wants to scare the media ... " And Barbra Streisand, an increasingly amusing presence, says "this is censorship pure and simple." One wonders if The Times and La Streisand would react the same...

BETHESDA, Md., Nov. 6 — Growing up in a conservative family outside Philadelphia, he came of age politically when Ronald Reagan was president and never lost his reverence for him. Now, after years of anonymous admiration, Michael Paranzino is playing a major role in preserving Mr. Reagan's image. A former Congressional aide who is now a political consultant and work-at-home dad, Mr. Paranzino spurred an Internet revolt against CBS that altered its plans to broadcast a mini-series on Mr. Reagan and his wife, Nancy. Through a Web site name he bought for $8.95, BoycottCBS.com, and a blur of appearances on...

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<p>Why the fiasco over "The Reagans"? CBS abandoned adult supervision.</p> <p>On the other hand, part of me is disappointed that I won't be able to see CBS's movie, "The Reagans," in about a week. I wanted to invite my pals over to watch James Brolin acting his heart out to be the Gipper. You don't get that many chances to see the first screening of a movie that was headed straight for that rare, wonderful ranking in the paperback movie guides--BOMB.</p>