"Reagan mini-series" biased says Moonves

[MartinAmbroseForan]

Who got to this guy!!??

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http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/10091.htm

November 6, 2003 -- CBS' canceled "The Reagans" miniseries was too "biased" for broadcast TV, network president Les Moonves admitted yesterday.

"We had promised the public that we would do a fair version of the Reagans' life," Moonves said in a Yale speech reported by the New Haven Register.

"Upon seeing the finished product, I felt the movie was quite biased against the Reagans," Moonves admitted. "And it wasn't the movie I promised the public."

[leetrisck]

1. So exactly who is Reagan's guardian now?

Is it Nancy? Patty? Ron,Jr.? Or is it the U.S. Government? Should a judge step in and name a guardian for the former president since he can no longer make decisions. Maybe he would have liked the movie, maybe he wouldn't have cared. He lived his life including his presidency in a "movie world."

[MartinAmbroseForan]

2. Who got to Moonves?!

[OKHRANA]

3. Nobody got to this guy

"Who got to this guy!!??"

this movie was biased. Even the author admitted several of the most crucial scenes in it were fictional.

Why not make a truthful movie about Reagan that way he becomes the subject, not CBS or it's motives.

[leetrisck]

5. It was a movie for pete's sake - think of all the trashy

movies ole Reagan made. Trash jobs are done every day (don't know if this was one or not nor do I care) on people dead, alive, sick, good, evil, etc. The "puff pieces" (movies - whatever you want to call them that NBC did on the present occupier of the White House was nothing but pure trash and everyone pretended it was "saintly."

[bluestateguy]

4. Moonves is a gutless empty suit

:eyes:

Although I'm sure network executives for NBC and ABC would do the same thing, witness ABC's sandbagging of Bill Maher when he dared to speak his mind.

[Kolesar]

6. Broadcasters' licenses are issued by the FCC ultimately

This sounds like a heavy handed power play. Nixon managed to snuff the networks during Watergate, but it was the feisty publisher of the Washington Post who would not stand down and buckle down to his threats. The federal government cannot shut down a newspaper.

[Michael Harrington]

8. The Republicans in Congress

Openly and nakedly threatened to sic the FCC on CBS and it's individual stations. A gross flashback to the Nixon era.

[Kolesar]

7. What political material is totally objective anyway?

That is the whole problem with an appearance of bias. One must "take a position" at the beginning of any treatise, and that inherently involves a bias. So it is just a matter of degree of bias.

For examples of over-the-top bias, I would give you Fox New and--especially--CNBC during the leadup to the conquest of Iraq.

[procopia]

9. One of the inaccuracies cited:

In one scene, Reagan fails to recognize of his staff, McFarland. Now, McFarland says he doesn't remember that happening. I remember hearing about an incident in which Reagan didn't recognize someone on his staff. Anyone else know?

[leetrisck]

10. That info is also in more than

one book