Eric Johnston, president of the US Chamber of Commerce and MPAA:
"We'll have no more Grapes of Wrath, we'll have no more Tobacco Roads. We'll have no more films that show the seamy side of American life. We'll have no pictures that deal with labor strikes. We'll have no pictures that deal with the banker as villain."
The boys brought this up in the latest podcast. Not only are there guidelines that work to limit dialog, but institutional controls that make it impossible for people to even bring up topics that threaten capitalism. Freedom of speech *
*conditions way apply
Really? I haven't listened to it yet, that's funny, I was just looking through my research from my dissertation
Yeah it's a good podcast as well. I was thinking about the taboo topics just the other day. I think my favorite is a 'maximum wage' mandate. Never gonna hear that in MSM