@Adam,
That's one way to put it. How about the following way. During the years the rights of the consumers have been restricted very much under new legislation. The flag is one of the measures to enforce those restrictions. So, it's basically taking away rights you once had.The flag is not intended to take away your rights, its intended to restrict your activities to only those that you have a right to do.
@ROF,
C'mon, it's so cheap to blame the pirates for this. They were always here, and will always be here. It is just the ever expanding greed of the movie companies and their ever growing influence on the Congress which is causing this.These broadcast flags, as I read them, will deny us this capability which I'm not happy about, but my anger isn't with Congress, the MPAA, or any other organization. It's the pirates who have forced the issue and it's the incapabilitiy of stopping these pirates that has caused me undue harm in my television viewing habits.
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Originally Posted by edDV
In short, Hollywood's left-wing status seems manufactured for business reasons to me. It's a feel-good/we're-champions-of-the-little-guy thing. Besides, the public loves seeing the hero face down heartless/inflexible reactionary authority figures on screen so that stance sells movies. It's a David and Goliath thing. Still, it all seems like phoney leftism to me.
If the studios contributed generously to efforts to alleviate poverty, to improve healthcare and education fought undue corporate influence in politics and worked to reduce the gap between rich and poor, then yeah, they'd be real leftists. I imagine a small number of celebrities really do embrace those values but it seems like most just make a show of it or like the idea but go about it hypocritically.
Maybe I just don't get it. Most big media interests are pretty solidly centrist or right wing here. It's about profit after all. Our non-profit public media is centrist with some left-wing sympathies.
As for Hollywood's revenue relative to other industries, I don't doubt your stats. As a media industry, particularly as one with world-wide reach (unlike most US television or print media), Hollywood has a disproportiately powerful voice. They might not be the biggest corporations out there, but between the reach of their movies and the public fascination with their celebrities, they've got one heck of a megaphone to make themselves heard with. I'd be kind of interesting if they had something intelligent to say. -
So well said. I have little to add.
Originally Posted by ungamunga
Crichton, the Harvard educated doctor turned author-film maker (e.g. Andromeda Strain, Jurassic Park, the TV show "ER") calls celebrities " the fabulously stupid"
The full quote was “Hollywood is just a bunch of fabulously stupid people working in a business of idiots.”
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I have no problem with reading intelligent commentary from anywhere on the political spectrum. My own views are typical of an old Red Tory voter here but in US terms I'd be all over the map.
I haven't read Critchton's comments but they ring true. A good point is a good point no matter who says it. The author's political views (or my own) don't change that. -
That's one way to put it. How about the following way. During the years the rights of the consumers have been restricted very much under new legislation. The flag is one of the measures to enforce those restrictions. So, it's basically taking away rights you once had.
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