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http://tv.yahoo.com/blog/tv-executi...-that-hollywood-pushes-a-liberal-agenda--3086
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[font=Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif]I didnt paste the whole article. but basically a guy (somewhat pretending, really had folks assuming) he was a liberal, ask a bunch of TV exec's from the past about whether they had a liberal bias and whether they tried to infuse their viewpoint in their shows. THEY DID and openly admitted it. It doesnt come as a shock, but still interesting. what yall think?[/font]
Some of TV's top executives from the past four decades may have gotten more than they bargained for when they agreed to be interviewed for a politically charged book that was released Tuesday, because video of their controversial remarks will soon be hitting the Internet.
The book makes the case that TV industry executives, writers and producers use their clout to advance a liberal political agenda. The author bases his thesis on, among other things, 39 taped interviews that he'll roll out piecemeal during the next three weeks.
Kauffman also acknowledges she "put together a staff of mostly liberal people," which is another major point of Shapiro's book: that conservatives aren't welcome in Hollywood.
Maybe that's because they're "idiots" and have "medieval minds.
When Shapiro tells Fred Pierce, the president of ABC in the 1980s who was instrumental in Disney's acquisition of ESPN, that "It's very difficult for people who are politically conservative to break in" to television, he responds: "I can't argue that point." Those who don't lean left, he says, "don't promote it. It stays underground.
"The late Bruce Paltrow knew that Schultz was a fan of President Ronald Reagan. When Schultz showed up to audition for "St. Elsewhere," a show Paltrow produced, to read for the part of Fiscus, Paltrow told him: "There's not going to be a Reagan [expletive] on this show!" The part went to Howie Mandel.
"Most nepotism in Hollywood isn't familial, it's ideological," Shapiro writes in the book. "Friends hire friends. And those friends just happen to share their politics."
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[font=Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif]I didnt paste the whole article. but basically a guy (somewhat pretending, really had folks assuming) he was a liberal, ask a bunch of TV exec's from the past about whether they had a liberal bias and whether they tried to infuse their viewpoint in their shows. THEY DID and openly admitted it. It doesnt come as a shock, but still interesting. what yall think?[/font]
