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Posted 20 Nov. 2003
Time to
Vent
by
Michael H.
Burchett |
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My intention was to write a column this month, as the
time is long overdue for me once again to become a regular contributor
to my own website. But alas, I am still covered up in work, and
now my software is on the blink; so a long, involved thinkpiece is out
of the question.
Still, there are a few things that I need to get off my
chest, so here goes:
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CBS recently hit another milestone in its long
degeneration from the Tiffany Network to the Wal-Mart Channel,
president Leslie Moonves knuckled under to right-wing pressure and
pulled Their much-touted miniseries The Reagans, claiming that he
had reviewed it in light of conservative criticism and found that it
did, indeed, contain biases. What? A miniseries that does
not represent persons and events with historical accuracy? Say it
ain't so, Les!
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Funny how Mr. Moonves has no trouble locating his sense
of decency when his programs offend people of wealth and influence, but
can't seem to find it with a map when ordinary Americans ask him to
produce it. Although his network has placed The Real Beverly
Hillbillies -- a revolting project that sought to poke fun at rural
Appalachians in the name of "reality programming" -- on the back burner,
Moonves still refuses to kill the program. Thousands of people
complained about the proposed series through letters, phone calls,
online petitions, etc., and I suspect that complaints from the local
networks affiliates in the south finally got the network to table the
series; yet to my knowledge, there have been no attempts to pawn it off
on Showtime -- which means that it could still rear its ugly head
during some future sweep period. Perhaps it'll replace the next
series that the right wing complains about.
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But then, who knows what goes through the tiny reptilian
brains of network execs? Perhaps Moonves meant pulling The
Reagans to be a concession to the "red states" of the Southeast, in
the belief that we all want to see Ronnie's pompadoured visage added to
Mount Rushmore. I've got news for you, Les: the region at
which you are so anxious to poke fun is full of coalfield Democrats,
independents, and centrist Republicans who have about as much use for
right-wing culture wars as they have for two-faced Hollywood types who
seek to exploit them.
In other news ...
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Let's see ... Geo. W. Bush wants
to rebuild public education, guarantee free elections, construct modern
power grids, and pay teachers and police officers respectable salaries
-- in Iraq. Is it too much to ask that those things be done here
first?
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If you think that's in poor taste,
keep in mind that their first choice was to take a multi-generational
group of low-income rural Americans and send them into the Iraqi desert
with wrong directions and faulty weapons. But network execs
scrapped the idea after discovering that it had already been done -- by
the U.S. government.
And so the farce continues.
Sadly, most of us don't seem to mind.
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