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Originally posted by tanstaafl28:

Think about it. In 2002, Bush was about to invade Iraq and Fox has always been an ardent supporter of all things Bush. The "Bushites" represent the Alliance in many ways.

The last thing they want to be promoting/supporting is a show centered around a group of rebels who buck the system every chance they get.

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Carlyle Joins Davis in Vivendi Offer

Mar 1, 2003
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters)

The Carlyle Group, one of the world's top private equity firms, has joined with oil tycoon Marvin Davis and others in a bid to buy U.S. entertainment assets of media giant Vivendi Universal, the Los Angeles Times reported on Saturday.

The Carlyle Group, whose advisors have included former U.S. President George Bush and former British Prime Minister John Major, has teamed up with Davis and private equity firms Bain Capital and Texas Pacific Group to buy a controlling interest in Vivendi's assets.

The media giant's U.S. entertainment assets include Universal's movie studio, theme parks and music company.

www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/archive.cgi?noframes;read=29358

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BROWNCOATER wrote:

I don't doubt it either. Especially when the bad guys in FF were specifically referred to as "The Feds."

Same with The Lone Gunmen, the spin off of X-Files. Released just prior to 9-11 I believe, the pilot episode shows one of the LG looking a computer simulation of a plane flying into skyscrapers. Don't recall if it was the WTC or not. Cancelled after 6 episodes.

Does that seem right to you?

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Also, many radio stations were banned from playing certain songs, including John Lennons 'Imagine' (wtf??)

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There was no government ban on any songs, either demanded or even requested. Many individual stations decided not to air certain songs that they considered inappropriate and some large chains shared lists with their program directors in case some songs hadn't been thought of before they were aired...but the decisions were at our local leverls, not even corporate.

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Also, many radio stations were banned from playing certain songs, including John Lennons 'Imagine' (wtf??)

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There was no government ban on any songs, either demanded or even requested. Many individual stations decided not to air certain songs that they considered inappropriate and some large chains shared lists with their program directors in case some songs hadn't been thought of before they were aired...but the decisions were at our local leverls, not even corporate.

To give a completely non-9/11 comparison, when the Pope was shot one automated country station is supposed to have followed the newscast with the song "Drop-Kick me Jesus Through the Goal Post of Life". Would you want to be the guy responsible for that?

If you want to slam the media there's plenty to work with that is true; use the conference call that Clear Channel had with all of their program directors 2 or 3 days after the WTC fell where the head of the company instructed us to milk 9/11 for every ratings point we could.

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Originally posted by Corncobb:

Wouldn't surprise me in the least. I remember post 9/11, the US government specifically told Hollywood to avoid making anything unpatriotic. Also, many radio stations were banned from playing certain songs, including John Lennons 'Imagine' (wtf??).

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Pirate News TV Music Videos #3

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-Video.Google.com, 2006-03-03

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Originally posted by SerenityForever:

Hey Pirate News,

Nurse skipped your meds?

I hate it when that happens.

I'm sure she'll realize the mistake and give you a double dose to catch up. Sweet dreams, cupcake.

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"Operation NORTHWOODS may be the most corrupt plan ever created by the U.S. government. Operation Northwoods had called for nothing less than the launch of a secret campaign of terrorism within the United States in order to blame Castro and provoke a war with Cuba."
—James Bamford, ABC News, "Friendly Fire - U.S. Military Drafted Plans to Terrorize U.S. Cities to Provoke War With Cuba," May 1, 2001
http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=92662&page=1
www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/news/20010430/doc1.pdf
www.financialoutrage.org.uk/911_mainstream_media.htm
www.mackwhite.com/northwoods.html (cartoon)

"The RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) action lawsuit against President Bush and other high level members of his administration is based upon prior knowledge of 9/11; knowingly failing to act, prevent or warn of 9/11; and the ongoing obstruction of justice by covering up the truth of 9/11; all in violation of the laws of the United States."
—Philip Berg, attorney-at-law and former prosecutor in U.S. Attorney General's office, Press Release re Mariani v. Bush et al.
www.911ForTheTruth.com
www.SueTheTerrorists.net
www.September911Surprise.com

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Originally posted by dug:

The economy went in the crapper in 2001, if you remember. Way before September 11. We couldn't sell ads to save our lives at my radio station; Cheap Channel had already slashed staff by 30% twice before 9/11. After that day advertising was completely dead for over a year.

As stated earlier in this thread, something like politics is economics in action. And economics sometimes happen without politics. With no money coming in media execs were going batsh!t no matter what their politics were and were killing anything out of the ordinary in order to protect themselves with "cost-cuting measures". We don't need to look for right-wing conspiracies here, just incompetent decisions from suits worried about the bottom line and about covering their @sses.

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MICJWELCH wrote:

I don't think Joss Whedon was worried about politics at all when he created the show. I know Gene Roddenberry was always trying to make political statements, but I don't see those here. Sure, there are good messages to get out of it, but this show was not out to change the world. It's entertainment. Fox just made another stupid decision on this one. No consipiracy. Sorry.

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