NYT shocked that Big Tech censors lefties, too
Don Surberby Unknown
Last month, Word Press decided to kick Conservative Treehouse (aka The Last Refuge) out of its tree. Big Tech sucker-punched free speech once again, and the press ignored the story. In fact, the American press has called for kicking the president off Twitter.
Today, the New York Times was appalled to learn that Big Tech is shunning a lefty.
How dare they!The Times reported, "An Oscar Winner Made a Khashoggi Documentary. Streaming Services Didn’t Want It.
"Bryan Fogel’s examination of the killing of the Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi had trouble finding a home among the companies that can be premier platforms for documentary films."
I like how the Times assumes that an Oscar entitles you to access to Netflix and the like. It is sort of like the stories about Pulitzer Prize winners being laid off.
Khashoggi's assassination was a big deal for a while because the American press thought it would drive a wedge between the Trump administration and Saudi Arabia. But now, meh.
The Times said, "A film by an Oscar-winning filmmaker would normally garner plenty of attention from streaming services, which have used documentaries and niche movies to attract subscribers and earn awards. Instead, when Mr. Fogel’s film, The Dissident, was finally able to find a distributor after eight months, it was with an independent company that had no streaming platform and a much narrower reach."
Conservatives such as Dinesh D'Souza feel his pain.
Fogel's take on his plight was solid. It was nothing personal, just business.
He told the Times, "These global media companies are no longer just thinking, ‘How is this going to play for U.S. audiences?’ They are asking: ‘What if I put this film out in Egypt? What happens if I release it in China, Russia, Pakistan, India?’ All these factors are coming into play, and it’s getting in the way of stories like this."
The American media is no different than any other industry that has sold out America. The lust for the Red China market has American companies doing many unAmerican things such as turning a blind eye to slavery and corruption. Chairman Xi dangles the promise of a billion-person market for goods someday, but I have news for these whores: they will never get complete access to that market, no matter how hard they bow and kowtow to the communist leaders.
It is Red China first because Chairman Xi tries not to be careless. Women and children can be careless, not dictators.
The Times and Hollywood have been very, very careless in embracing his communism-disguised-as-capitalism.
The film opened today in maybe 200 theaters and will go direct to video on January 8.
The Times said, "It is a far cry from the potential audience it would have been able to reach through a service like Netflix or Amazon Prime Video, and Mr. Fogel said he believed it was also a sign of how these platforms — increasingly powerful in the world of documentary film — were in the business of expanding their subscriber bases, not necessarily turning a spotlight on the excesses of the powerful."
Truth to power doesn't pay the bills.
If it did, the Times would have junked the Russian Collusion hoax and gone after Obama for spying on Donald John Trump and other political dissidents.
But billionaire Carlos Slim does not want to annoy anyone in Washington. And Slim is the financier who keeps the Times afloat.
Nevertheless, the Times bemoans the fact that none of the major streaming services wanted this flick.
The Times quoted Stephen Galloway, dean of Chapman University’s film school, who said, "This is unquestionably political. It’s disappointing, but these are gigantic companies in a death race for survival."
"It's political" is a a rich complaint coming from the most-politicized business in the country.
But Hollywood politics is all a feel-good charade. They went after President Trump because they side with Red China in any trade war with the USA. They are the enemy from within.
He added: "You think Disney would do anything different with Disney+? Would Apple or any of the megacorporations? They have economic imperatives that are hard to ignore, and they have to balance them with issues of free speech."
Why should Disney stand up for free speech? The Times does not. In fact, it forced the resignation of an editor for soliciting and publishing a column by a (gasp) Republican senator.
I have not seen anyone in the mainstream press protest the de-platforming of Conservative Treehouse. Indeed, the American press now leads the charge for banning dissent in the name of ending Fake News and hate speech.
The failure to stand up for the rights of conservatives is biting liberals now. And it has just begun.
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