George Clooney's SONY Petition and what he tells about our useless news media

[SleeplessinSoCal]

Pretty scary stuff.

Clooney and Lourd sent it to "basically the heads of every place" but they couldn't find anyone to sign it as the hackers had created a climate of fear. "Here’s the brilliant thing they did. You embarrass them first, so that no one gets on your side. After the Obama joke, no one was going to get on the side of Amy, and so suddenly, everyone ran for the hills. Look, I can’t make an excuse for that joke, it is what it is, a terrible mistake. Having said that, it was used as a weapon of fear, not only for everyone to disassociate themselves from Amy but also to feel the fear themselves. They know what they themselves have written in their e-mails, and they’re afraid," he said.

The actor felt that the lack of support for the petition had created a new paradigm, one in which people were afraid enough to give into threats. Clooney wants people to zoom out and look at the bigger picture. "This is just where we are right now, how scared this industry has been made. Quite honestly, this would happen in any industry. I don’t know what the answer is, but what happened here is part of a much larger deal. A huge deal. And people are still talking about dumb emails. Understand what is going on right now, because the world just changed on your watch, and you weren’t even paying attention," he said.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/sony-hack-george-clooney-attacks-759441

[Scuba]

1. Amy who? What joke about Obama?

[jmowreader]

9. It's actually kind of a stupid joke

Amy Pascal is co-chair of Sony Entertainment. Jeffrey Katzenberg (he runs DreamWorks Animation, and donates a lot of money to Democrats) was throwing a breakfast for the president, and Pascal was invited. The e-mail exchange in question was Pascal asking one of her underlings if she should ask the president if he liked all these "black-themed" movies like Django Unchained and 12 Years a Slave.

http://www.businessinsider.com/leaked-sony-emails-show-obama-racist-jokes-2014-12

[yallerdawg]

2. The news pundits talk big.

They don't have a gun to their head like Sony. If we don't know who they are and what these terrorists capabilities are, "just go shopping" is not the appropriate response.

If a really crappy movie can cause mass protests across the Middle East, and arguably 'Benghazi,' Sony is probably making the best choice at this time.

Terrorists is the problem, not Sony.

[maddiemom]

3. I guess that was the woman who trashed the Obama kids' outfits for the turkey pardon.

[maddiemom]

4. I meant that as the answer to SoCal.

[maddiemom]

5. Errr...Scuba

[yallerdawg]

6. This was about released emails...

by Sony execs that included the comments about Obama probably enjoying movies like "12 Years A Slave" and "Django Unchained." Amy Pascal said it was just a private politically incorrect joke, and did not mean it.

Clooney is referencing how the gossipy emails released by the media are distracting us from what is really going on, the game-changing cyber terrorism attack on Sony.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

13. Not at all related to the Obama girls.

The joke was more like jesting. "Name That Movie with Black Stars" jesting. Embarrassingly feeble minded humor for execs.

Clooney is pointing out the completely negligent news media for covering the emails and not the magnitude of the actual extortion and denial of First (far more important than the stupid 2nd) Amendment rights by a tinpot dictator.

He has a big point that most are still missing.

[Cha]

17. No, maddiemom.. world's apart.

[yallerdawg]

8. Rogen/Franco

Gave us "Pineapple Express" and "This is the End." Yes, those 2 dogs.

Sony may have pulled the movie to salvage their careers and credibility as actors.

[Bluenorthwest]

10. Those two 'dogs' each made over a hundred million dollars. I like both films a lot.

Sorry if that bothers your bookish sensibilities. But each cost about 30 million and made in excess of 100 million.

[yallerdawg]

12. You like those movies?

This is the problem with legalizing pot.

[TBF]

14. I'd need something stronger

to sit through Franco. That guy is creepy.

I really haven't followed this story that closely - all I know is something about hacking and censorship. If Bono can figure out how to have his song show up in everyone's i-tunes surely this can be easily and widely released.

[jmowreader]

11. Problem is...

can you imagine the backlash Sony is going to experience if it turns out they set this up?

This is what's weird to me about this whole thing: North Korea has been threatening for...oh, about sixty years...to bomb South Korea, invade South Korea, fire FROG-7 rockets at Seoul during the Olympics, just do all these terrible things to South Korea - our best buds in the whole Pacific Rim - and we always off the DPRK's bluster...knowing full well North Korea is close enough to South Korea to do these things. But let the North Koreans claim they're going to do something in the United States - you know, this great-big country that's six thousand miles from North Korea and across an ocean - in response to what looks like a very terrible and completely unrealistic movie, and America shrivels up like a ballsack on dry ice.

[Silver Gaia]

18. Evidently, they did "stick it online."

It IS available for streaming. Check this out:

http://www.cnet.com/news/the-interview-to-stream-on-youtube-google-play-xbox-and-sonys-site/

Renting it is $6 and buying it is $15.

[lob1]

15. At least SNL took some shots (poor choice of words on my part}

at North Korea. Someone has some balls.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

16. They really did. Glad I watched

[father founding]

19. rocky

"What happens if a newsroom decides to go with a story, and a country or an individual or corporation decides they don't like it?" Has Clooney been hiding under a rock, this has been going on for years.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

20. Clooney is taking action about this because it's his field

He does take action on various events in the world and has a very politically charged relationship with those in the media abusing the First Amendment.