This is a commercial enterprise. This is not PBS. We’re not here as a public service. We’re here to make money. We sell advertising, and we do it on the premise that people are going to watch. If you don’t cover the miners because you want to do a story about a debt crisis in Brazil at the time everybody else is covering the miners, then Citibank calls up and says, “You know what? We’re not renewing the commercial contract.” I mean it’s a business.

— CNN anchor Jack Cafferty, on CNN’s
“American Morning” program Aug. 5, 2002

Thursday, September 19, 2002

JFK

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JFK (1991) Directed by Oliver Stone.
JFK

Few movies have created such a firestorm of controversy as Oliver Stone’s JFK, which looks at the Kennedy assassination through the eyes of New Orleans District Attorney, Jim Garrison. Indeed, before the first screenplay was even finished, Stone was attacked by certain members of the press, particularly those with ties to the CIA (such as George Lardner of the Washington Post). Now how can you attack a movie for which the screenplay isn’t even finished? The answer to that question says more than just a little about who was responsible for the assassination of JFK. Those who felt so threatened by this movie obviously had more than just a little to hide.

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