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...Does this make CBS innocent of liberal bias? No. CBS executives, after all, approved the script and oversaw production without thinking it would cause a fuss. They had wanted a love story about Nancy and Ronnie and - until news of conservative objections broke in the New York Times - they apparently thought that was more or less what they got. The irony is, they were trying to pander to Reagan's fans; they just proved spectacularly bad at it. But if CBS's executives were not floating in the warm, like-minded liberal womb of Hollywood, it might have occurred...
...This was the real insult - not to Reagan but to his political heirs. By not seeking their blessing, CBS sent the message: You do not matter enough for us to fear you. Step on political operatives' Guccis, insult their mothers, but never, ever imply that they lack clout. By beating CBS, the network's foes helped themselves - online muckraker Matt Drudge modestly declared on MSNBC that the incident marked "the beginning of a second media century." But their defense of Reagan was at best contradictory and at worst insulting: 1) Reagan is a titan who saved America and freedom...
...Also This Week: TIME has 10 questions for CBS Chairman Les Moonves
Anyone half familiar with the capture and rescue of Private First Class Jessica Lynch in Iraq or the kidnapping and rescue of Elizabeth Smart, for instance, will not learn much from the dueling movies on NBC and CBS (both Nov. 9, 9 p.m. E.T.). For Saving Jessica Lynch, NBC couldn't get the co-operation of the 20-year-old private, but that didn't stop it any more than France's balking stopped Donald Rumsfeld. Lynch (Laura Regan) ends up less a character than a prop. We learn little about her captivity, and she has scant dialogue or characterization...
...making The Elizabeth Smart Story, on the other hand, CBS worked closely with the family of the Utah girl abducted for nine months, allegedly by a religious fanatic and drifter who calls himself Emmanuel. The movie follows Ed and Lois Smart as they butt heads with the police, who are portrayed as wrongheaded and arrogant. They cast suspicion on Ed, and slough off the parents' pleas to look for Emmanuel, the family's former handyman. Dylan Baker, who played a suburban dad pedophile in the darkly comic movie Happiness, is the ideal choice for Ed--he radiates piety or creepiness...