Call up Alanis Morissette, we got an irony a cookin:
Case in point: the next episode of Boston Legal, to be broadcast Sunday March 13 on the Disney-owned ABC network. AlterNet has acquired both the original and the revised script for this episode from a source who prefers to remain anonymous. The original penned by Kelley focused in large measure on Fox News and its loofah-loving star Bill O'Reilly. The script also featured substantial excerpts from the independent film Outfoxed, which documents how the allegedly "fair and balanced" cable channel acts as a propaganda arm for the Republican Party and other conservative interest groups.
But the final script – the one that was actually shot for the show that will appear on Sunday – has been thoroughly scrubbed on orders from top ABC network executives, and all mention of Fox News and O’Reilly has been sent down the Memory Hole.
Why was the original script, which ironically centered on issues of free speech, censored?
Kelley won’t say why the changes were made – and no one at his production company, his producing partner 20th Century Fox, ABC or even Fox News is talking.
_________________ "Though some may think there should be a separation between art/music and politics, it should be reinforced that art can be a form of nonviolent protest." - e.v.
isnt it common practice for tv shows to make up similar people/shows to make fun of and not use real situations. probably saving them from lawsuits would be the reason the had it revised
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Peeps wrote:
isnt it common practice for tv shows to make up similar people/shows to make fun of and not use real situations. probably saving them from lawsuits would be the reason the had it revised
If that's the case, Kelley would have known that. And if he knew that, why would he waste his time writing the original script like that?
_________________ "Though some may think there should be a separation between art/music and politics, it should be reinforced that art can be a form of nonviolent protest." - e.v.
isnt it common practice for tv shows to make up similar people/shows to make fun of and not use real situations. probably saving them from lawsuits would be the reason the had it revised
If that's the case, Kelley would have known that. And if he knew that, why would he waste his time writing the original script like that?
i can barely sort threw my own mind, let alone whats going on in others mind...jeesh
best guess, he knew this would be leaked and he wanted to make a point, ironic enough, about censorship
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