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To: Lane3 who wrote (78568)	10/18/2004 6:39:04 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793843

That piece provided a good candidate for the thread header That paragraph was a diplomatic attempt to get Hollywood liberals to listen to him. The best book ever written on the subject of the bias in TV/movie scripts was "The view from Sunset Boulevard: America as brought to you by the people who make television" by Benjamin Stein. His description of the standard "Rockford Files" plot is a classic: "Rockford arrives in a small town run by a corrupt sheriff and an evil businessman." I bet I watched them do variations of that script a dozen times.

To: Lane3 who wrote (78568)	10/18/2004 10:11:58 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793843

>>As a result, alternative points of view may be demonized When I saw you were quoting this, I thought of your description of your friends, and what they think about Bush. I don't think there's anything remarkable about perception shading your version of reality. We've rehashed this over and over again. To me the most obvious version of this is people on a jury -- it's common knowledge that potential jurors will vote this way or that way depending on their personal demographics. All twelve will hear the same evidence but they will all hear it their own way. That wasn't the point of the article. The point was that in Hollywood there is a point of view which is widely held which is anti-business and anti-authoritarian. I can certainly imagine good stories which had different points of view, not just saccharine "Touched By An Angel" feelgood dramas. Ayn Rand wrote some corkers about heroic inventors and entrepreneurs and individualists being harassed by evil Socialists. So did a lot of other Russians (she was Russian, in case you did not know) and others living behind the Iron Curtain. Solzhenitsyn, Bulgakov, Milosz, among others. "Schindler's List" had that sort of plot, Schindler was a good businessman fighting against evil government, but it's easy to demonize government when it's Hitler. No-brainer, actually.