But within days, that debate would be upstaged when President Ronald Reagan’s Justice Department declared that a nominee in the best short documentary category, “If You Love This Planet,” was “foreign political propaganda,” meaning that anyone who arranged a screening of the film would have to register their names with the FBI. Critics immediately compared the move to McCarthyism and said it would intimidate people and keep them from showing the film.
But as often happens with attempts at censorship, the labeling backfired. Within 48 hours of the Justice Department’s announcement, Nash said, a “media firestorm” set in. “Entertainment Tonight” ran a lead segment on the news, and newspapers around the world covered it. Editorials in The Washington Post, the New York Times and the Guardian condemned
Nash had never made a film before, but after hearing Caldicott’s lecture at McGill University in 1981, when she was a doctoral student, she felt she had to capture it. “I knew exactly how I wanted to edit it, how I wanted it to look,” said Nash, now 74 and still living in Montreal.
The fact Hollywood is leftist suprises no one
Where is JuanPappierHRW, hrw, TamaraTaraciuk, AmnistiaOnline and CIDH WHERE Silence. Enemies of the genuine Salvadoran justice, its state of law, democracy and its people.
Oh yeah! I don't remember that at all. And have never heard of it since. So...yeah, cool. Oscars are a club. Nothing is nominated nor selected due to its worth. Everyone knows this. It 'won' because people hated Reagan.
Wasn’t ‘83 the year “The Day After” aired? Nuclear war was on everyone’s mind at the time (including mine). Too bad nuclear energy suffered guilt by association. We could have been done with coal by 1999.
Oscar awards are meaningless
The “know better” Department !
'General Electric True CBS host 'Ronnie, former SAG president
Like when Bill O’Reilly would attack rappers on his Fox News show, sales would skyrocket Like, please, conservatives, please don’t like my story about a dystopian future where everyone must carry a gun by law, on Amazon for the price of a cup of coffee
Yeah, and think about America’s carbon footprint today if the left hadn’t demonized nuclear energy 50 years ago. The no nukes movement was a disaster for the climate.
The truth never 'backfires.' Tell your buddy Fauci.
And set clean energy back 50 years. Thanks, Hollywood!
Now, it's literally hurt any real advancement into green renewable energy that would adequately meet our future demands. Way to own the Regan Admin, libs. 🙄
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