After 9/11, Rove pressured the entertainment industry ‘to produce propaganda.’

[marmar]

from ThinkProgress:



After 9/11, Rove pressured the entertainment industry ‘to produce propaganda.’»

The New York Times reports today that shortly after 9/11, the White House met several times with “a delegation of high-level media executives, including the heads of every major studio,” in order to discuss how “the entertainment industry could play a part in improving the image of the United States overseas.” Karl Rove attended at least one of the meetings. One of the participants in the meetings, former RIAA chairwoman Hilary Rosen says Rove “put pressure” on them to “produce propaganda”:

Hilary Rosen, the former chairwoman of the Recording Industry Association of America, who was also present at the post-9/11 meetings, said that Mr. Rove and other White House officials were looking for the kind of support Hollywood gave the United States during World War II.

“They wanted the music industry, the movie industry, the TV industry to produce propaganda,” she said. “Rove was putting a lot of pressure on us.”

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/12/01/rove-media-propaganda/

[Bluebear]

1. But don't call this administration Nazi-esque. Noooooo. nt

[FrenchieCat]

2. Why wait so long to mention it?

Hillary Rosen.....guess was skeered!

[JackRiddler]

14. This received fair amounts of news (print) coverage at the time...

though there were those as usual who thought it justified given the new threat, or who dismissed seeing anything sinister or tyrannical in it as "conspiracy theory." So be glad it's not being forgotten, it's sticking (ever so little but gradually... we as a nation will understand our own history).

[gratuitous]

3. And now, just a scant seven years later

These industry moguls bravely step forward to tell America what a bunch of fearmongering scumbags were running the country. Thanks a fucking heap, Hilary Rosen.

[PBS Poll-435]

4. This is nothing new

Jerry Bruckheimer was involved in a similar situation.

Dan Rather, if I recall, was pissed about how Hollywood was glamorizing war.

[TomInTib]

5. Helloooo... "24"

And the fact that "24" aired in the season before The Day That Changed Everything (Chickenshit America) should cause us all pause.

[Mnemosyne]

6. And too many complied. Fuck you pigboy. n/t

[donco6]

7. How old is "God Bless the USA" anyway?

I hate that song.

[marmar]

10. I hate that f**king song too......

Total audio cheese.....

[rucky]

8. Why can't anybody say no to this clown?

[The Backlash Cometh]

9. Yep. I don't doubt it for a second.

And I bet it's not the first time.

[Swamp Rat]

11. Well, that sorta blows the 'librul media bias' cock-and-bull story.

[Octafish]

12. Josef Göbbels put pressure on Leni Riefenstahl

The NAZIs called it the Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda.



It's almost an uncanny resemblance.

Horrible Genius - Goebbels, Riefenstahl, and Nazi Propaganda

After 9/11, Karl Rove Vaulted the Hollywood Propaganda.

Mission Accomplished.

[ColbertWatcher]

13. k+r! Marmar, I am so glad you posted this! Thank you! n/t