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To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (1444)	9/11/2006 12:11:34 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) of 1695

I can't think of many things worse than to have people openly lie about what you said and did, in a movie, with characters playing you, and not be able to stop it. While it is probably quite annoying to have people miscast what you actually say, that's far different from making up a visual reality, that is not, in fact, reality, and which can be proven to be false. I believe similar problems were encountered in the Reagan biography- and it was not shown on broadcast TV- as it probably should not have been, if there were factual problems. In that case, as in this one, members of congress got involved and exerted pressure - which is probably what they should do in such rare cases. In neither case was it about opinion, but about factually incorrect data presented as "fact". That's propaganda for lies, I think- and I'm not sure we protect propaganda for lies in the same way as we protect "opinion"- because fabricating the truth, when there is evidence of what the truth is, seems a very different thing to me than opinion. But I don't know the law on false material and outright fabrications.

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