Sony Pictures says Hollywood influence shapes public perception...

[healthmyths]

hmmmm.........
"In remarks made on Thursday at a fundraiser, Sony Pictures co-chairman Amy Pascal emphasized Hollywood's influence in shaping public perception on sexual orientation, specifically in doing away with gay slurs and offensive stereotypes."
Sony Pictures' Amy Pascal Encourages Industry to Rid Scripts of Gay Slurs, Stereotypes - The Hollywood Reporter

So let me get this straight..(no pun intended!) but she says Hollywood influences shapes public opinion.

How many of you think that is correct, i.e. does Hollywood influence shape public perception?

 

[ScienceRocks]

No shit,

The t.v is the single greatest brainwashing machine in the history of humanity!

 

[waltky]

possum thinks mebbe dey could make it up to Kim by givin' him a bit part inna movie...

Sony investigators find links to North Korea in hack probe
3 Dec.`14 - Hackers used tools in a devastating cyber attack on Sony Pictures Entertainment that were based on ones used in similar attacks conducted against South Korea by North Korea, a person familiar with the company's investigation said on Wednesday.

The person, who was not authorized to publicly discuss Sony's probe into the attack, said that investigators hired by the company made the connection to North Korea as they reviewed evidence left by the hackers. The technology news site Re/code reported earlier on Wednesday that Sony intends to name North Korea as the source of the attack, which exposed massive volumes of internal company data and shut down its computer systems for a week.

But U.S. national security officials said government agencies still had not determined whether North Korea was responsible for the Sony Pictures attack. The hacking into one of Hollywood's biggest studios has alarmed the government and cyber security experts, who say this is the first major attack on a U.S. company to use a highly destructive class of malicious software that is designed to incapacitate computer networks. The FBI issued a warning to U.S. businesses on Monday.

The attack launched on Nov. 24 came a month before the entertainment unit at Sony Corp. is due to release "The Interview," a comedy starring James Franco and Seth Rogen as two journalists recruited by the CIA to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. The Pyongyang government denounced the film as "undisguised sponsoring of terrorism, as well as an act of war" in a letter to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in June.

TOO EARLY FOR DEFINITIVE ASSESSMENTS

 

[waltky]

possum thinks mebbe dey could make it up to Kim by givin' him a bit part inna movie...

Sony investigators find links to North Korea in hack probe
3 Dec.`14 - Hackers used tools in a devastating cyber attack on Sony Pictures Entertainment that were based on ones used in similar attacks conducted against South Korea by North Korea, a person familiar with the company's investigation said on Wednesday.

The person, who was not authorized to publicly discuss Sony's probe into the attack, said that investigators hired by the company made the connection to North Korea as they reviewed evidence left by the hackers. The technology news site Re/code reported earlier on Wednesday that Sony intends to name North Korea as the source of the attack, which exposed massive volumes of internal company data and shut down its computer systems for a week.

But U.S. national security officials said government agencies still had not determined whether North Korea was responsible for the Sony Pictures attack. The hacking into one of Hollywood's biggest studios has alarmed the government and cyber security experts, who say this is the first major attack on a U.S. company to use a highly destructive class of malicious software that is designed to incapacitate computer networks. The FBI issued a warning to U.S. businesses on Monday.

The attack launched on Nov. 24 came a month before the entertainment unit at Sony Corp. is due to release "The Interview," a comedy starring James Franco and Seth Rogen as two journalists recruited by the CIA to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. The Pyongyang government denounced the film as "undisguised sponsoring of terrorism, as well as an act of war" in a letter to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in June.

TOO EARLY FOR DEFINITIVE ASSESSMENTS

 

[waltky]

possum thinks mebbe dey could make it up to Kim by givin' him a bit part inna movie...

Sony investigators find links to North Korea in hack probe
3 Dec.`14 - Hackers used tools in a devastating cyber attack on Sony Pictures Entertainment that were based on ones used in similar attacks conducted against South Korea by North Korea, a person familiar with the company's investigation said on Wednesday.

The person, who was not authorized to publicly discuss Sony's probe into the attack, said that investigators hired by the company made the connection to North Korea as they reviewed evidence left by the hackers. The technology news site Re/code reported earlier on Wednesday that Sony intends to name North Korea as the source of the attack, which exposed massive volumes of internal company data and shut down its computer systems for a week.

But U.S. national security officials said government agencies still had not determined whether North Korea was responsible for the Sony Pictures attack. The hacking into one of Hollywood's biggest studios has alarmed the government and cyber security experts, who say this is the first major attack on a U.S. company to use a highly destructive class of malicious software that is designed to incapacitate computer networks. The FBI issued a warning to U.S. businesses on Monday.

The attack launched on Nov. 24 came a month before the entertainment unit at Sony Corp. is due to release "The Interview," a comedy starring James Franco and Seth Rogen as two journalists recruited by the CIA to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. The Pyongyang government denounced the film as "undisguised sponsoring of terrorism, as well as an act of war" in a letter to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in June.

TOO EARLY FOR DEFINITIVE ASSESSMENTS

 

[BlackSand]

hmmmm.........
"In remarks made on Thursday at a fundraiser, Sony Pictures co-chairman Amy Pascal emphasized Hollywood's influence in shaping public perception on sexual orientation, specifically in doing away with gay slurs and offensive stereotypes."
Sony Pictures' Amy Pascal Encourages Industry to Rid Scripts of Gay Slurs, Stereotypes - The Hollywood Reporter

So let me get this straight..(no pun intended!) but she says Hollywood influences shapes public opinion.

How many of you think that is correct, i.e. does Hollywood influence shape public perception?

Not to bash same sex or interracial couples ... But I was reading a post the other day and the poster mentioned how pleased they were to see so many interracial or same sex commercials and television programs.

I mentioned the fact that I saw more interracial and same sex couples on television in a month than I see in real life in a year ... That expresses it is more common than it really is.

Of course Hollywood shapes opinions ... No surprise there.

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[blackhawk]

Only on the uninformed and low information types which sadly there are way to many of.

 

[Political Junky]

Of course it's true.

 

[Penelope]

Sony needs a complete overhaul, with their two racist bigots

Amy Pascal, Scott Rudin, two racist bigots.