{"id":127,"date":"2003-11-04T11:09:56","date_gmt":"2003-11-04T16:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2003\/11\/a_big_brouhaha\/"},"modified":"2003-11-04T11:09:56","modified_gmt":"2003-11-04T16:09:56","slug":"a_big_brouhaha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2003\/11\/a_big_brouhaha\/","title":{"rendered":"A Big Brouhaha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whew.  Maybe we won&#8217;t need that Republican National Committee censorship review <a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#038;cid=638&#038;ncid=762&#038;e=1&#038;u=\/nm\/20031104\/en_nm\/leisure_reagans_dc\">after all<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Drawing Republican fire over the accuracy of its upcoming mini-series &#8220;The Reagans,&#8221; CBS appears ready to present a kinder, gentler portrait of the ailing former President Ronald Reagan than originally produced &#8212; if the network airs it at all.<br \/>\nSources close to the production said on Monday CBS is considering canceling the docudrama, slated to air Nov. 16 and 18, under mounting criticism from political conservatives that the two-part series unfairly depicts Reagan and his wife.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don&#8217;t really care about this movie, but it&#8217;s interesting observing how people respond to current issues.<br \/>\nOur country recently launched an unprovoked invasion of another nation costing thousands of lives and billions of dollars.  And many Americans have raised nary a question about it, even though we&#8217;ve found no evidence supporting the alleged justification for the war.<br \/>\nBut when a T.V. network proposes to broadcast a partially-fictitious movie on a former president, you&#8217;d think from the volume of howling that the entire nation was teetering on the verge of collapse.<br \/>\nA revealing insight into some people&#8217;s priorities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2003\/11\/a_big_brouhaha\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to A Big Brouhaha\"><p>Whew. Maybe we won&#8217;t need that Republican National Committee censorship review after all: Drawing Republican fire over the accuracy of its upcoming mini-series &#8220;The Reagans,&#8221; CBS appears ready to present a kinder, gentler portrait of the ailing former President Ronald Reagan than originally produced &#8212; if the network airs it at all. Sources close to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-127","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}