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The great "Happy Feet" conspiracy
What role should Hollywood play in helping to educate the public about important issues? When is Hollywood educating, and when are they spreading propaganda?
http://mediamatters.org/items/200611210008?offset=20&show=1On the November 20 edition of his CNN Headline News program, Glenn Beck said that Happy Feet, an animated film about a dancing Emperor penguin, is "propaganda" and an "animated version of An Inconvenient Truth." Beck then discussed the film with Bob Thompson, director of the Center for the Study of Popular Television at Syracuse University, who told Beck that "[o]f the 50,000 things affecting America's youth in negative ways today, I don't think the penguin movie is probably on that 50,000." Thompson then told Beck: "I don't think this story is going to get you a Peabody [Award]." [continued]
What role should Hollywood play in helping to educate the public about important issues? When is Hollywood educating, and when are they spreading propaganda?