CBS Bans Ads for Dan Rather Movie 'Truth'

[Roy Rolling]

Source: Hollywood Reporter

CBS has refused to run advertising for Truth, the film starring Cate Blanchett and Robert Redford that revisits a painful episode in the network's past involving a discredited 2004 news story on former President George W. Bush's military service record.

CBS has denounced the movie, which opens Friday, as a disservice to the public and journalists.

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"That's a disservice not just to the public but to journalists across the world who go out every day and do everything within their power, sometimes at great risk to themselves, to get the story right," he said.

Truth is told from the points of view of Mapes and Rather, who left CBS News on bitter terms in 2006. He unsuccessfully sued the network and has complained of being "erased" from CBS history. Rather and Mapes have always contended that despite the discredited documents, the underlying story about Bush was true.


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There must be something embarrassing for CBS to complain so loudly.

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

1. CONTEST! COMPLETE THIS SENTENCE!!

"That's a disservice not just to the public but to journalists across the world who go out every day and do everything within their power, sometimes at great risk to themselves, to .........," he said.

[BlueJazz]

15. .have all their sweat and hard work misrepresented simply because the chimpanzee's family has money.

[hopemountain]

35. ding ding ding. winner. nt

[Fairgo]

47. Dang

Winner right out of the box.

[mountain grammy]

57. Can't top that! Perfect.

[Scarsdale]

27. Entry

"to disrespect this President in accordance with the Koch brothers and all other billionaires"

[ColesCountyDem]

48. Adios! n/t

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

50. Who's internet soul has departed? I want to pray for him/her.

[ColesCountyDem]

52. Think of it as the Tomb Of The Unknown Troll.

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

55. He/she will be back with a new username soon enough.

The infiltration right now is the highest I've seen it in years,

[ColesCountyDem]

56. I agree on both counts. n/t

[LiberalElite]

86. .

[Kokonoe]

51. bring the news.

from up a billionaires ass.

[Bozvotros]

78. Entry

....satisfy the wanton and often perverse needs of their corporate masters.

[yeoman6987]

100. Smart of CBS to not show these commercials for it

It sunk in the box office making 76,000 dollars this weekend. Holy cow. Horrible amount for a movie. Box Office Mojo says it did not wow the crowds.

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

102. Well, it's not here yet. I intend to go,

[yeoman6987]

103. Not in my area either. Probably go straight to video.

[Stuart G]

2. CBS us full of sh*t...Cronkite would roll over in his grave.

Sad but true.
What they did to Rather is exactly who they are.

[MBS]

13. " " " "

Unimpressive, to say the least.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

22. Actually, Cronkite was not a fan of Rather

and said he should have been replaced years earlier.

He didn't exactly rush to his defense during the memo flap, either, and was highly critical of him.

I love uncle Walt, but he had no issue with CBS' actions on this at the time.

[YOHABLO]

68. Well I wish you had given a source of that statement. I'm not denying it. I'd just like to know

[SusanCalvin]

70. Being taken in by what I believe was a plant to bring the story down

Was indeed stupid. And Dan is certainly no Uncle Walter.

Nevertheless, Dan is a decent journalist and the story is true. IMHO.

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

44. Cronkite admitted he retired too early...

... he was sorry for it, as so much happened as soon as he retired.

""Oh, well, I want to say that probably 24 hours after I told CBS that I was stepping down at my 65th birthday, I was already regretting it," Cronkite told TV critics. "And I regretted it every day since. It's too good a job for anybody to give up as I did." "

"But only in an "extraordinary situation." "There is a point at which it seems to me if an individual reporter has gained a reputation of being honest, fair as can be, and helps the American people in trying to make a decision on a major issue, I think we ought to take that opportunity," he said."

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/640196300/And-thats-the-way-it-is.html?pg=all

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

54. They took Dan Rather, one of the greatest investgative reporters we've ever had in TV news..

and turned his reputation to shit with millions of people, I knew from DAY 1 that it was a "who, me?" defense by CBS.

He was right, and nobody wanted to hear it. Bravo to Dan Rather! I hope he gets his due and sets the story straight for all time!

[blm]

64. Corpmedia will try to Gary Webb him, but, Rather knows too much now to

let it happen to him. So do we.

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

69. That's for sure.

[jtuck004]

3. No Truth on CBS. Maybe they should just shoot themselves in the foot instead. n/t

[yeoman6987]

41. Over movie commercials that the movie will bomb.

I think it is a smart strategic move.

[MH1]

4. LOL. I'm shocked. (not)

Yes, it sounds like "Truth" will track much like the relevant chapters in Rather's book, "Rather Outspoken". Which means yes, it will be embarrassing for CBS.

[MBS]

14. ah, hadn't realized he'd written a book. .

will have to check that out! Thanks!

[MH1]

34. Definitely check it out, it's a good read.

When it came out I considered it a must-read, to get Dan's side of the story.

[C Moon]

5. Damned liberal media.

[Demeter]

6. Well, that's petty, and pound-foolish of them

Must mean the same old stupids are still running the place...the ones who fired him 11 YEARS AGO!

Someday, they will have to own their mistake and get over it.

[still_one]

7. CBS has long ago lost any respectability as a purveyor of journalism. The end of what was once a

great network has been going down hill since Mike Wallace left. Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite are rolling over in their graves, seeing where CBS came from, and where it is today

[Submariner]

77. The president of CBS News came over from Fox News

he made his bones under the leadership of Roger Ailes, which explained to me why 60 Minutes went off the rails with that phony Benghazi hit job, and why ex-Foxhound Major Garret ended up as a CBS reporter.

[still_one]

81. I didn't know Sumner redstone came from fox

[Submariner]

88. David Rhodes

is the CBS news president.

[still_one]

91. Here is where I got it wrong, Sumner Redstone is the largest shareholder of CBS and Viacom

Leslie Moonves is President and CEO of CBS corporations, and David Rhodes is the CBS news president as you pointed out.

I appreciate the information.

[99th_Monkey]

8. Damn, this means I MUST see this movie asap, no ifs, ands or buts.

I hear KKKarl is shaking in his boots over it as well.

The CBS/Rove denouncements of "Truth" are way more compelling reasons to
see this movie than any commercial they ban about it

Well done CBS.

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

9. I rarely watch movies in theater anymore - I'll make an exception for this!

[99th_Monkey]

11. Yep, me too. .. Hey lookie-here

The film to be released in the United States on October 16, 2015. <-- that's today!!

Woot.

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

17. Yes!

[BeanMusical]

33. Same here.

What they did to Dan Rather is despicable. I hope that this movie will be seen by as many people as possible.

[erronis]

19. Obviously CBS doesn't know about Barbra and the great effect trying to limit viewers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect.

Me too. I'll go see this in a smelly, sticky theater (with fake butt popcorn) as soon as I can! And then download it for later pleasure.

[arcane1]

45. Nope, because you made that up.

Or parroted it from some dumb-ass.

[dembotoz]

10. they can't handle the truth!!!!

diff movie i know, but i had to...will prob go see it now

[classof56]

12. I've been getting a kick out of Stephen Colbert's Late Show...

The ways he does an "end-run" around things you can't say on CBS. Funny!

I suspect CBS has just upped the viewership for Truth. I rarely go to movies, but I'll definitely be in the audience for this one and hope it shows up soon on Netflix, Hulu, etc.

[fredamae]

16. CorpoMedia....a hard pill to swallow

for many just awakening to the new propaganda system that has usurped the Vital role of the Fourth Estate.....It's been on life support for several decades -now It is pronounced DOA.

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

18. It's an extremely distasteful and bitter pill.

[wolfie001]

20. What a pack of spineless cowards!!!

CBS never deserved a real reporter like Dan Rather!!!!

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

21. I was really surprised they allowed Blanchett on Colbert to promote it last week

That one must have gone under Moonves' radar

[Duval]

23. Ha! Of course it's embarrassing! But,

banning it is not going to keep people from seeing it! And it was a disastrous disservice to the public in 2004.

[Cassiopeia]

24. Well done CBS

Articles like this one will likely bring far more interest in this movie than any 30 second spots would have.

[Roy Rolling]

25. Yep

If you want people to crave something, just tell them they CAN'T have it.

[Midnight Writer]

87. Amen

[hollysmom]

26. can they legally refuse to run an ad? did't they run ads for a lot of the right wing schlock movies

edited because I can't type straight.

[7962]

29. Of course they can. Every network refuses ads all the time

You usually hear more about it before the Super Bowl because those make headlines, but it happens frequently.
They're all private companies.

[kelly1mm]

101. Of course they can. They are not the government and thus 1st Ammendment prohibitions

against restricting speech do not apply to them.

Why would you think a private company would have to allow commercial speech it disagreed with?

[Lochloosa]

28. I remember when I was 16 my Mother telling me not to go see The Exorcist.

I went that weekend.

[Mike Nelson]

30. Lara Logan etc... CBS promotes...

...lies and liars.

[AtomicKitten]

31. Unacceptable MSM manipulation.

[bobthedrummer]

104. The CIA And The Media: 50 Facts The World Needs To Know (Prof. James F. Tracey 9-27-15 Truth Theory)

http://truththeory.com/2015/09/27/the-cia-and-the-media-50-facts-the-world-needs-to-know

MSM Psy-Ops-that's been going on for quite awhile AtomicKitten.

[gregcrawford]

32. I seem to recall...

... a story that those documents were handed to Rather's team by someone who was later revealed to be a plant by "Turdblossom" Rove. Even though the documents were faked, the facts were irrefutable: Dubya was an irresponsible, over-privileged asshole who went AWOL because he didn't want to play "pilot" anymore. So they gave CBS papers they knew they could later "expose" and trumpet as fraudulent. It was a very clever double-blind scam: acknowledge the facts, but do it with faked documentation, then harp on the fakery while the truth gets lost in the shuffle.

That could have been an even bigger story than the original, but the cowards in the corner offices at CBS were too afraid of the Bush mafia.

[stuffmatters]

53. Always suspected Rove used the same tactic on the IRS to protect CrossRoads non profit status

Lois Lerner's (Bush appointee, Republican) actions never made sense from her first weird public outburst. Just when the IRS
investigation into their non profit (anonymous donor) qualifications was coming to a rightful end. Cross Roads non profit was going to loose non profit status and Rove much of his livelihood & power. With all the convenient "outrage" and noise Lerner started, the IRS allowed Rove to keep his undeserved non profit status (is there a more political organization on earth that Crossroads?). The IRS also backed off completely from all the other blatently political non profits, including the Kochtopus propaganda machine.

Yes,I agree the fundamental facts of Bush's military disservice were basically true and Rove did the preemptive strike planted info/testimony to pervert the truth and save his boss. Then he did it again to save Crossroads and himself.

[blm]

67. Exactly what I think - misdirection has always worked for him.

.

[SusanCalvin]

72. ^EXACTLY^ nt

[closeupready]

36. Meanwhile, Lara Logan's casual relationship with Truth is just fine with them.

K&R

[Raine1967]

37. Freepers must be so proud of what they did to Rathers and Mapes.

[Fred Sanders]

38. CBS and Wall Street are joined at the hip by mutually produced propaganda and lies.

[hopemountain]

39. msm's blatant censoring truth and manipulation

- for me means: as soon as my satellite tv contract ends next spring - no more msm tv in my household. ridiculous. cnn and time warner will have to rely on the poor, the uneducated, the ignorant, and the greedy viewership for their revenue.

[LanternWaste]

40. As much as I enjoyed the movie, The Insider, Christopher Plummer as Mike Wallace

As much as I enjoyed the movie, The Insider, Christopher Plummer as Mike Wallace never came across to me as Mike Wallace... just Christopher Plummer; so I'm keeping my fingers crossed that Redford (a great guy no doubt, but not in the same acting league as Plummer) can pull off Dan Rather.

Regardless, it's a story that really does suggest itself for a well-crafted treatment, and a film I will definitely see in the theaters.

[closeupready]

43. I loved that film.

Very under-rated, IMO.

[AndreaCG]

89. You don't respect Redford as an actor?

With his great body of work? Huh. I respectfully disagree and suspect yours is a minority opinion.

[sulphurdunn]

49. George W. Bush

is the only military deserter to ever serve as Commander in Chief. The most disgusting part is that he was a chickenhawk who deserted from the infamous 'champagne unit' of the Texas Air National Guard where, at the time, preppy punks like him could become veterans without fear of serving in Vietnam, and the little shit couldn't even handle that.

[SusanCalvin]

74. Yep. Him making it to prez is beyond disgusting.

Damn, I'm tired of living in interesting times.....

[mountain grammy]

58. I will treat myself to seeing this one in the theater.

Fuck off, CBS!

[SoapBox]

59. Of all the "disservice" in the world...

Now you decide to speak out?

CBS, you suck.

[Skittles]

60. WTF ARE THEY AFRAID OF???

[SusanCalvin]

73. Us. nt

[Skittles]

79. must be a new-found fear

[SusanCalvin]

82. Not really.

They've always been afraid we'd wake up.

[Skittles]

83. I think it is just the corporate media in action

as always, they end up overreaching

[SusanCalvin]

84. Who want sheeple. Anything else terrifies them. nt

[Babel_17]

61. Hmm, who I think is telling the truth?

Redford and Dan Rather, or the legal, and publicity, departments of CBS.

P.S. http://observer.com/2015/10/truth-is-one-of-the-greatest-journalism-movies-since-all-the-presidents-men/ (a Rex Reed review)

[blm]

62. Most corporate media will circle the wagons around Bush and CBS.

They knew the truth then, but, the owners were promised favorable rulings in Bush's SECOND TERM and they got them.

[PatrynXX]

63. CBS.....

the same one that gave us the movie The Insider. Nuff said.

[houston16revival]

65. Book Banning

is akin to book burning

Suppression is the characteristic of a totalitarian state and dictatorship

[rhett o rick]

66. This is the status quo that we are fighting and a Goldman-Sachs Admins will be on the wrong side. nm

[47of74]

71. I think "The Truth" is hitting a bit close to home.

This whole thing was a setup to get rid of Rather. Get the old time journalists out and get people like Clusterfox and Friends in their places.

And regardless, the only thing Bush was doing during 'nam was keeping all the beer taps in Texas safe for democracy.

[SusanCalvin]

75. "This whole thing was a setup to get rid of Rather."

Yep.

[Smarmie Doofus]

76. LOL. Too good to be true. I'm seeing it now. K and R nt

[davidpdx]

80. Fuck CBS!

I'm putting this on my list of movies to watch.

[azurnoir]

85. May the ghost of Edward R Murrow haunt them forever

[INdemo]

90. A couple more links if your are interested about CBS's refusal

http://www.indiewire.com/article/cbs-cant-handle-the-truth-bans-ads-for-robert-redford-movie-20151016

http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2015/10/16/cbs-refuses-to-air-advertisements-for-truth/


http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/17/business/media/cbs-refuses-ads-for-truth-film-about-a-60-minutes-ii-segment.html?_r=0

[certainot]

92. rather's a trophy on limbaugh's wall

discrediting rather and getting him fired was essential for keeping bush and talk radio played the esential role in saving bush/ rove.

like with everything else all they have to do is lie and distort and repeat it enough and it becomes truth. only talk radio can do that.

biggest mistake in political history: the left's ignorance of rw talk radio

[Enthusiast]

93. CBS is one of those corporations we have been hearing about that never do anything wrong.

Seems to me they hired Frank Luntz. Looks like a major league fuck up to me.

[Enthusiast]

94. Kicked and recommended! CBS is fearful the public will be reminded of their role in protecting

the criminal Bush Administration.

[Triana]

95. CBS can ban the ads. But they can't ban the truth.

It's playing in my area on 10/30. I'm going to see it.

[Octafish]

96. MOCKINGBIRD Lives!!!

Shame to live in a country where freedom of speech and of the press is no longer practiced.

[tavernier]

97. Once upon a time there was a great network that reached for the moon

and the stars, and the people rejoiced!

But in their search for truth, a spirit of darkness descended upon them and mocked them.

"How Dare You?" cried the Lord of Fox?

The network shrunk in shame, and was never great again.

The End.

[Judi Lynn]

98. Thank you! n/t

[msanthrope]

99. Well, now we know the frequency, Kenneth....nt