Reply #29: You may find these remarks on his speech a little warped! "ACTORIVIST?" [View All]

[Judi Lynn]

Tim Robbins excoriates media and administration as NAB keynoter

Actorvist Tim Robbins has never been coy about his political leanings, and at the recent NAB Convention in Las Vegas, Robbins, as keynote speaker, flung it like a monkey with a profanity-laced tirade against mendacity and mediocrity in media and government.

Broadcasting and Cable reports that Robbins made mention he was castigated as a "traitor" for negative comments against the administrations war push, and he deliberately "pre-empted" a scripted speech on new media at the National Association of Broadcasters' annual show and launched his curse-filled humorous attack on both the state of the country and the laziness of national news media.

“We are at an abyss as an industry and as a country,” Robbins said.

Robbins described that abyss using language that would not be allowed on free over-the-air radio or television.

B&C noted that radio and television executives urged Robbins to “give the speech,” Robbins "bit the hand of the media."

Robbins cited the homogenized radio industry and the curse of a “national playlist” before XM Satellite Radio and Sirius Satellite Radio shook things up, and he excoriated the news institutions for their lazy and unprofessional pursual of the truth and holding politicians accountable to it.

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http://www.monstersandcritics.com/people/news/article_1400072.php/Tim_Robbins_excoriates_media_and_administration_as_NAB_keynoter

(Someone's been burned but good, to get this aroused by his speech. Apparently it landed a little too close for comfort!)