You know you've done something wrong when USA 8th grade reading level milk toast Today
calls you out:
"CBS insists 'this is a solution that benefits everyone involved' - a statement that is true only if you limit the people involved to CBS executives. It doesn't benefit the network as a whole, which now has a mark of creative cowardice to live down. It doesn't much benefit those who accuse the movie [The Reagans] of being historically inaccurate and defamatory - they wouldn't want it to air in its present form anywhere. And it certainly doesn't benefit viewers (other than the small minority who subscribe to Showtime), who have been robbed of a chance to decide the movie's merits for themselves."
While I applaude their willingness to shame another media company, USA Today managed to miss the really juicey part. CNN Didn't:
"Showtime and CBS are both owned by Viacom, which is anxiously awaiting federal action on rules to restrict ownership of local TV stations. Failure to enact such changes could cost Viacom millions of dollars, said Jeff Chester, head of the Center for Digital Democracy, a communications lobbying group."
"Viacom needs help from Republicans in the White House and Congress who might not like seeing Reagan portrayed negatively, Chester said."
Content controlled by the monetary gains of political policy is scary.
Maybe not as scary as Reagan the politician, though. I don't know how accurate the movie is.... but there sure are tomes upon tomes of direct quotes and policy which firmly seat Mr. Reagan among the worst leaders this country has ever had. Not true you say? ...Tony Pierce has the
links and quotes to back that sort of statement up.