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Old 11-04-2003, 09:22 PM
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CBS Evening News Moved to Showtime
(2003-11-04) -- Just hours after deciding to sell the planned CBS miniseries 'The Reagans' to the Showtime cable movie channel, network chief Les Moonves announced that the 'CBS Evening News with Dan Rather' would also move to Showtime starting in December.

"It just doesn't work," Moonves told staffers. "Listen, we are not afraid of controversy, we'd go out there if it came in at 50-50, pro and con, but it simply isn't working. It's biased."

According to an unnamed CBS insider, "He made up his own mind after seeing it. He's made a brave, decisive move."
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Old 11-04-2003, 09:39 PM
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So, either they knew they did a poor job on it and didn't want to go down with a sinking ship, or they felt they did an ok job on it and were too afraid to defend it.

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As it turns out, I was right earlier in the thread. CBS did not produce the show, but bought it from an outside producer. That's the way it is with a huge majority of what we see on TV.

And the most recent post is priceless. And it's also what worries me about this "censorship by special interest."

Sooner or later, it would be the "liberals" or us old folks who might get a highly favorable show about a "conservative" taken off the air.

It's a bad precedent. The media is supposed to be free from this kind of thing.

I wouldn't have watched it either.
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Old 11-05-2003, 01:30 PM
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Re: CBS Moves Regan Drama to Cable...

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Putting politics aside, which many of you can't seem to do, I think that IF, in fact, CBS cancelled this show due to pressure from ANY political party or ideological movement, it is a sad and worrisome development.

If it can happen to this show, it can happen to any, and sooner or later, programming will be so non controversial that there will be less quality programming (not commenting on the quality of this particular program without seeing it) than there is presently.

Which is scary.
I agree completely - no matter what, networks can't be bowing to party pressure to control programming. It just doesn't work in a society such as ours, and it sets a dangerous precedent.

If CBS felt that unsure about the product to begin with, it never should have taken it on. Deciding not to air it because of the conservative response though? Not a good thing.

I'm not making a judgement on the production's quality, just trying to make a point as to the decision.

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Old 11-05-2003, 01:43 PM
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I wouldnt have watched it either way. Ronald Reagan is a dying former president, who has a wife that is watching him die each day. For a movie to be made about him in that kind of light when he's dying a horrible death is highly disrespectful to a United States president regardless of his political party or what he did or didnt do in office. That's just a low blow to the Reagan family, and that's all I'm going to comment about that.
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Old 11-05-2003, 03:10 PM
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I wouldnt have watched it either way. Ronald Reagan is a dying former president, who has a wife that is watching him die each day. For a movie to be made about him in that kind of light when he's dying a horrible death is highly disrespectful to a United States president regardless of his political party or what he did or didnt do in office. That's just a low blow to the Reagan family, and that's all I'm going to comment about that.
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Old 11-12-2003, 06:15 PM
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Politics aside. A very strong argument could be made that the issue here isn't politics pressuring CBS. Sure, Reagan's friends are mostly politicians. They are just concerned with the truth.

It has been demonstrated that in many cases, the authors took liberties with Reagan's views, agenda and words. They took advantage in ways that might malign him.

To put it in perspective, it'd be like making a movie about Ghandi and having him say that Christians and Muslims deserved to be reincarnated as fleas.
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Old 11-12-2003, 10:11 PM
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To put it in perspective, it'd be like making a movie about Ghandi and having him say that Christians and Muslims deserved to be reincarnated as fleas.
You probably didn't mean for that to be funny, but I almost choked on my Pepsi I laughed so hard... HAHAHAHA! Thanks for the laugh!
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