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Democrats_win Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-01-10 12:11 PM
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Recall when CBS refused to air "The Reagans" a movie about you-know-who.
It's another big lie that they tell us in America: That the media only considers dollars and cents when making decisions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Reagans

The Reagans is a 180-minute television movie about U.S. President Ronald Reagan and his family which CBS had planned to broadcast in November 2003 during fall "sweeps", but was ultimately broadcast on November 30 of that year on cable channel Showtime due to controversy over its portrayal of Reagan....

...About a month before it was scheduled to air, portions of the script were leaked. As a result of these stories, the miniseries began to be widely criticized by conservatives as an unbalanced and inaccurate depiction of Reagan. CBS reportedly had ordered a love story about Ronald and Nancy Reagan with politics as a backdrop, but instead received what they later claimed was an overtly political film. Supporters of the film claimed that these criticisms were simply partisan bias, and were an attempt to censor a film because it did not always portray the former president in a positive light.
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Vermontgrown Donating Member (180 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-01-10 04:13 PM
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1. There was nothing positive about that dictator prick...
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8 track mind Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-01-10 05:25 PM
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2. well in a round about way, yes there was...
It made for some of the most memorable Doonesbury strips and Tonight Show monologues in the 80's.
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jeremyfive Donating Member (434 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-02-10 10:28 AM
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3. Partisan, yet. I hated Reagan until I saw the film. . .
. . . then I hated him a little less.
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