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« Another "This is pitiful moment" | Main | Judges and arms »

The modern Hollywood "blacklist"

Posted by David Hardy · 23 March 2006 10:27 AM

This from Dan Gifford:

We are accustomed to hearing about the 1950s official Hollywood blackballing of writers and others with suspected communist or even leftist leanings by "conservative" studio heads. But did an unofficial liberal Hollywood political blacklist replace it? Yes, it did. And award winning science fiction writer Neil Schulman is an example of a talented man whose career was essentially ruined by being placed on it. The "LA Law" writers were in love with him until he wrote a Los Angeles Times article about the way the media ignores incidents where armed citizens stop crimes in progress. There was a local example he used to make his point.

That contradicted the liberal politics of Law's writers. They dropped him and, according to what I heard, put his name on the whisper blackball grapevine. I first heard about the incident from a fellow ACLU board member who was an "LA Law" writer at the time. Neil wrote one of the more poignant "Twilight Zone" episodes and he is an example of the very liberal McCarthyesque bias that we are so accustomed to hearing does not exist.

· media

2 Comments | Leave a comment

The Mechanic | March 23, 2006 1:12 PM | Reply

Time to let the sponsors know you plan to go out of your way to patronize their competition!

nobody | May 4, 2006 8:32 PM | Reply

I work in the visual effects industry and have found it important not to reveal one’s conservative opinions. There are some in this industry who are apparently self-appointed thought police. If they suspect you are conservative will attempt to lure you into saying something politically incorrect so that you can be identified and eventually eliminated from this very small labor pool.



It is however acceptable to openly make the most outrageous, left wing, anti-establishment claims in THIS workplace without consequence. For instance, the morning of 9/11 I had to listen to a manager say, “You know we really deserve these attacks for our oppressive economic policies.”

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