This is not about the media, per se, but about their pals in Hollywood. Here's what prompted this thought.
I decided to go back and read some of Tom Clancy's books, even some that I have seen as movies. Knowing that Hollywood often embellishes novels that are put on the big screen, to the point where they are often unrecognizable (James Bond movies, for example).
My most recent reading adventure was Patriot Games and, surprisingly, found that very little was changed about the story, except the ending! Here's what surprised me. In the end of the book, the terrorists are captured, but in the end of the movie they meet a horrible (and much deserved) death. But why is Hollywood obsessed with making the bad guys in fiction die while blatantly turning a blind eye to the real threat in the Middle East?
Over and over, Hollywood stars play the parts of real hard-ass good guys who kill the bad guys while we cheer them on the screen. Then as soon as they are out doing interviews, they are big peace activists... Why is this? Don't they really believe there is good and bad? Right and wrong? And that their nemesis, George Bush, is really one of the good guys (even if he is wrong on immigration) not Sadam Hussein?
Mick O.
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Kudos. I too am tired of Hollyweird's inacuracy of history. I know some changes are made for "entertainment purposes" but a lot of naive and/or ignorant people see these movies and think that's what happened. It's not just the actor's themselves that reverse their views off-screen, but the media's softball questions and personal agenda for asking them.
We treat these people as gods, then expect our children to know the difference between right and wrong, or the difference between the real world and that of make-believe, which me thinks most of the inhabitants of Hollyweird can barely decipher themselves.
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