Hollywood Execs admit on tape to suppressing right wing opinions and pushing a left wing agenda.

How can we make sure that this type of discrimination, close-mindedness and bigotry doesn't make it into the Australian TV and movie industries?

http://tv.yahoo.com/blog/tv-executives-admit-in-taped-interviews-that-hollywood-pushes-a-liberal-agenda--3086

No need to worry Pat. The Conservative, free-market, globalisation pushing right wing is winning the war despite all these closet liberal Hollywood billionaire types.

It is funny how there are all these conspiracy theories about Hollywood, school teachers, uni lecturers, climate change advocates and government owned media pushing left-wing agendas when they are obviously not doing it very well

Oh no!

You're telling me that MacGyver's dislike of guns and preference for intelligent solutions was an evil plot to make us less violent and smarter?

Those rascally teletubbies are turning us all gay?

Those brainwashers at sesame street are instilling us with a fondness for the alphabet and numbers?

GASP!

Actually, some kind of subtext, be it right, left, theistic, atheistic, capitalist, communist or even bloody druidic tends lend a second layer of meaning to TV shows and gives them more depth. You'll find that most successful TV shows, books or movies tend to deal with common issues facing society and explore one viewpoint, even if it's not something on the surface. Even the most vacuous crap you can imagine like American sitcoms, tends to at least involve certain issues, be it urban life or relationships.

What I really fear, is the idea of people trying to restrict or control these shows for their own ends. That way lies propaganda.

The deciding factor will be the viewers. Shove a particular viewpoint in front of them for too long and they'll reject it.

The alternative, is the Chinese model of banning shows about time travel or demanding the creating of shows that promote a wholesome traditional lifestyle.

At the end of the day, assuming that the viewing public, even children, are incapable of exercising their own preferences requires astounding levels of arrogance and contempt.

Mate! get a time machine go back to the day we first got media stop it there.
Evidence,read the Australians report on mining dying as a result of government action 20 years ago.
OH why bother read that comic book any day, listen to Alan Jones its not an American illness.
Oh and welcome.

Belly,
great idea getting a time machine. Have you got one ? Please wind it back to 1972, just before Whitlam.
many thanks.

I hear you pelican but I find it hard to dismiss the thought that America’s attitude toward torture was not entwined in some fashion with the show 24.

First screening within months of 9/11 24 with its indestructible hero Jack Bauer must have gone at least some way toward socially legitimising torture in the eyes of many Americans. In fact the military had serious concerns about show.

“But while 24 draws millions of viewers, it appears some people are becoming a little squeamish. The US military has appealed to the producers of 24 to tone down the torture scenes because of the impact they are having both on troops in the field and America's reputation abroad. Forget about Abu Ghraib, forget about Guantanamo Bay, forget even that the White House has authorised interrogation techniques that some classify as torture, that damned Jack Bauer is giving us a bad name.”
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-military-tells-jack-bauer-cut-out-the-torture-scenes--or-else-436143.html

One feels Roberto Gonzalez’s torture memo would have read a little differently had not the American people undergone a measure of desensitisation toward the practise through 24, even given the post 9/11 environment.