Tuesday, June 01, 2004

Mickey News - Censorship isn't Mickey Mouse stuff.

Mickey News - Censorship isn't Mickey Mouse stuff.: "Seeing the �invisible hand� holding up distribution of Michael Moore's new film is not a pretty sight.
If you're a liberal or a Michael Moore fan or even a cineophile (aren't they all the same thing?), you already know that you want to see his new film, 'Fahrenheit 9/11.'
And you know that since Michael Eisner, the head of Disney, wants to block its release, he must be a pig-headed ideologue or a gutless coward in some kind of ego-driven Hollywood snit or another tool of the right-wing conspiracy to control the media. Or all of the above.
But if you're a conservative, or a pro-business kind of person or an admirer of the Bush and bin Laden families (Moore's film links the two), then you probably figure, who cares? What's the fuss about? It's that fat guy again, ranting, and if Eisner doesn't want to run Moore's movie, well, that's his choice; he's head of the company. Free speech does not require any film company or publisher or TV channel to run stuff they don't want to run, so there!
Which is Eisner's position, roughly paraphrased."

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