Posted on 12/19/2014 8:43:21 AM PST by Dave346
The Obama-Hollyweird ties backfire on Sony Pictures Entertainment and the U.S.
Kept out of it altogether, U.S. government hands would have been clean and the U.S. government would have been able to say with 100% accuracy that whatever is in the film is the film maker’s exercise of their freedom of speech. ANY seeming “approval” by the White Houses changes that and gives a charge of “propaganda” some legitimacy. I am not saying North Korea is right, in any sense, nor do I think SPE was right to cave-in to the threats. But all would have been better if no U.S. officials had any meetings with or gave any even tangential approval to the film makers.
Well, that should cripple the movie industry permanently.
I don’t see a problem.
Company makes a movie that might very well be anticipated to generate complicaitons for US foreign policy. They voluntarily submit it to State as a heads-up. State says, “Thanks.”
Now if Sony had felt they were obligated to show it to State, or if State had tried to pressure them into changing it, then we’d have a problem.
But I haven’t seen evidence that happened.
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