Bwah-HAH!1 Sony tried to buy ads for the Dan RATHER flick on CBS Evening News!1
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Plus on COLBERT and the other CBS jewels. Silly Sony, thinking CBS would stand up for Free Speech!1 I guess Viacom makes a distinction between taking money from Shrub-Co and the chump change from Sony.
I can hardly wait for: 1) seeing the movie, which means my actually going to a theater (once per decade) and PAYING,
and especially 2) when it gets an Oscar for something or other, bwah-hah!1
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http://news.yahoo.com/cbs-bans-advertising-critical-film-134020303.html
[font size=5]CBS bans advertising for critical film[/font]
NEW YORK (AP) — 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.
[FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]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 [/FONT]," 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. ....
Some at CBS News are angered by an implication that news executives were pressured to quash the story by corporate owners Viacom, which had business reasons to maintain friendly relations with the Bush administration. A low-level producer is depicted in the movie giving an angry speech about Viacom as the story was falling apart. [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]Mapes was only months removed from a career triumph — breaking an award-winning story about mistreatment of prisoners in Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison [/FONT], a story embarrassing to the Bush administration whose veracity wasn't questioned. ....
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when a gangster enterprise refuses money they normally take something is very wrong .
Are we ready to turn off the shit that devides and conquers us yet ? 