Hollywood and THE SHAW SHANK REDEMPTION

I have not posted since November 17, 2005. My last post was about the lack of support by the Hollywood mega-millionaires for Air America Radio. After I started Air America Radio I tried to get funding for a not-for-profit project called The 4th Estate Society in which Bob Parry and I tried to form a well funded independent organization of investigative journalists. That project only needed $2,500,000 to be launched. Bob and I tried for more than a year to get some funding form the Hollywood crowd. My organization provided start-up funds of over $100,000. We finally had to abandon the effort. Can anyone think of two more important projects than liberal talk radio and independent investigative journalism in the United States?

In my last post I quoted from Bob Parry’s writings about how the elite left has ignored these two vital components of winning the media war with the right wing. Rich liberals continue to pour millions of dollars into fragmented organizations that need constant support but do not effectively reach the uninformed voter in Kansas. So they continue to invest exclusively in those organizations and blogs that primarily reach only those who are already on the progressive side. They are in effect “preaching to the choir”

My wife Anita and I as co-founders of Air America Radio are still reaching out for support for projects in radio acquisition and liberal talk radio. I cannot think of a project that has done more for the progressive cause than Air America Radio. It is amazing to me that Hollywood liberals do not get it.

In the movie The Shaw Shank Redemption, the character played by Tim Robbins, Andy Dufresne, wrote a letter every week to the governor of the state to get funding for the prison library. It took him years to get a check for a few hundred dollars. After he got the check, he kept on writing his letters every week. That is what I plan to do with the Huffington Post until I either get banned from the blog or guilt these mega millionaires to start supporting projects other than those that feather their own nest or their inflated egos.

And the hypocrisy of these Hollywood elites is mind boggling. While they complain about the MSM, they are making obscene money for 20th Century Fox which is owned by Ruppert Murdoch. They continue making money for Time/Warner, NBC, Disney, and Viacom. Disney owns ABC Radio which is the major broadcaster of Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity. These successful Hollywood actors, producers, and directors can be in a position to do things their own way and work with their own companies. It is time for these people to know that without the talent, the studios would be lost.

I hope the readers on this blog will catch this post while it is on the most recent post list. I certainly do not expect this to be a featured post. That is reserved for the elites who complain about things a lot but not much more. The featured post section is for all the elite journalists, directors, producers, and actors. I can’t wait to see David Mamet’s next cartoon.