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CBS bows to political pressure

So it looks like CBS has decided to yield to the political pressure encouraging them to back off from their planned miniseries, The Reagans.

Although the mini-series features impressive production values and acting performances, and although the producers have sources to verify each scene in the script, we believe it does not present a balanced portrayal of the Reagans for CBS and its audience. Subsequent edits that we considered did not address those concerns.

They claim that their decision was reached independently of the controversy that has surrounded the script. In order to allow people to see it (because CBS cares about free speech), they've given the show to Showtime, a pay-per-view where the viewing audience is restricted to extremely bored people who miskey an entry on their remote control.

Posted by nlvp at November 5, 2003 09:27 PM