...suggests NBC's refusal to carry Dixie Chicks' movie commercial is a publicity stunt.Hollywood appears to have hit upon a fail-safe strategy for getting attention for just about any kind of film: get someone, anyone, to try to suppress it, and then rush to the news media with breathless warnings about the First Amendment coming under attack.
Well I say, not to put too fine a point on it, bullshit. And even they have a hard time making it stick. By they time they get to graph 5 they're admitting...
NBC acknowledged that it had rejected the ads for fairness reasons, since Mr. Bush couldn’t be expected to buy response ads, as he would in a political campaign.
Fairness? So this is what we've come to then? A commercial that takes issue with a politician must be treated as a campaign commercial even if the politician isn't running for something (Bush isn't running in this election and can't run in the next one either, unless of course he fixes that too)? A commercial taking issue with a politician can't be run unless said politician can be "expected to buy response ads"?
Did I say bullshit?
(And BTW the Chicks' new album, "Not Ready to Make Nice," is a good one. Go buy it. It's on iTunes.)
(Correction: "Taking the Long Way" is the album. "Not Ready to Make Nice" is the video. Buy them both.)
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