On Monday, Paramount’s CEO, Bob Bakish, ripped cancel culture and censorship of content that may offend current audiences.
Fox News reports:
Bakish made the comments as the Paramount+ streaming service launched overseas and he discussed the company’s large and historical catalog.
“By definition, you have some things that were made in a different time and reflect different sensibilities,” Bakish explained, according to a June 20 piece by The Guardian.
He went on, “I don’t believe in censoring art that was made historically, that’s probably a mistake. It’s all on demand – you don’t have to watch anything you don’t want to.”
Paramount has recently seen that there is big money in appealing to American nostalgia, as “Top Gun: Maverick,” a sequel to Paramount Pictures’ “Top Gun” (also starring Tom Cruise) in 1986, smashes box office records.
What took so long to speak up??
Audience participation
Paramount refuses to Cow Tow to China. Good on ya.
Kowtow, not cow tow.
You listening, wokesters?
Didn’t think so…
1984 Big Brother censorship by cancel culture in 2022!
The tide is slowly turning…. about time!
There is no need for censorship or cancel culture. If you don’t like it or get offended, don’t watch it. And, don’t try to take away my right to an opinion. Grow up already.
Finally some big media speaks up. Think I will ditch Netflix and go with Paramount+.
If you don’t like the content of somebody’s post, just delete and move on. Very simple.
boy they are not going to like this. I wonder how long before the woke cancel culture crowd gets hi out.
He seems to have a pretty powerful position supposed by huge revenue. We’ll see.
Biden, Kackling Kalamity, Nut Pelosi, and the rest of the Dimocrats have lost what little collective minds they had left over NOTHING. The are having doo doo hemorrhages over ‘losing a “Constitutional Right to abortion….a ‘right that they NEVER had in the first place. The SCOTUS in 1973 ruled that abortion was legal. They never said it was legal because it was Constitutional….just that it was legal….Read the Constitution from cover to cover and you will NEVER find one reference or utterance from the SCOTUS that legalized abortion that it was CONSTITUTIONAL…That is because it is NOT Constitutional…It NEVER was Constitutional…so here is a tip you blathering moron Democrats….you cannot have lost something that was never Constitutional….go ahead Dims…read it for yourself…or just sit around and cry, run for your Safe Space, writhe on the floor, scream to your hearts content, and when you have finished your childish tantrums you can contemplate your navel lint until the world looks level…it is not going to change a thing..GROW UP Dimocrats.
How many of these “people” have ever even read, let alone studied intensively, the US Constitution? I think we should all read the Constitution at least every two or three years – it doesn’t take very long – may be an hour or two at best (and it would be well worth the effort)
Sorry it took someone so long before they spoke up. Glad he’s got the balls to speak the truth. In my own words, “F*ck China”.
Being offended is the same as seeing something very bad, and rather than ignoring it and going another way, the decision is to step right into it and complain that it made you dirty. Sorry, liberals. You do it to yourselves.
It’s about time for this. If you don’t like or agree with the movie Don’t watch it. what right do you have to change what has been made and was correct at the time it was made. History cannot be changed and you must understand history or are doomed to repeat it.
About time these people wake up! I suspect all of this nonsense has been affecting his bottom line though.