Gerrard .I remeber tough guy Bogart sucking up to Estes Kefauver live on TV during those “witch hunt” hearings,before Edward R. Murrow called bull-shit.

Postscript:  Don’t forget, McCarthy’s chicanery knocked the political spirit out of Hollywood—what there was of it between the glitz and the gore.

Vector as a vietnam vet I’ve arrived at the same conclusion as you. Ms Fonda was right and courageous. A great American patriot. The vistas created by the carpet bombings were suppressed.

The definitive book on Hollywood is a book of that name by Gore Vidal .It’s historical fiction but has many facts about the start of the movie business and it effects on government starting around the 1920s these effects are still in play today.

The Movie “Battle Ship” is nothing more than a promotional recruiting piece of propaganda for the US Navy.

Thank you for the good article, this book begins to indicate the true scope of the problem of authority in America and the world.  “mass media is the multitiered conduit to public perception of reality.” is right on, Americans have their reality created, defined, and determined by their television experience. Most people think that if anything were wrong, television would tell them!  Oh, wrongo, publico, things have gone horribly wrong and television is NOT telling us!  Some scientists say that, due to ocean acidification, the oceans will die “in our lifetime”!  But, while it’s selling coal and oil and natural gas, does TV ever mention that it’s CO2 that’s doing this?  Nope.  Does TV ever even once show Solar Panels? Nada!  So, while the bloodthirsty audience grips their seats, waiting for the next exciting episode, the planet’s seas are dying, and when they go, that’s about it for us!  The fact is that Hollywood-Burbank is the ruler of this world, and while they get plenty of money for their cheap propaganda, their real purpose is Evil, pure and simple.  At the very beginning of their show-business career, they are all required to “sell their soul” to demonstrate their “dedication” to their art and craft.  And we can see the result in the character and content of their product.  I’m glad the political left is finally taking up on this obvious, ubiquitous element in our society, the omnipresent influence of the movies and television.

Hollywood helped to create the fantasy world that was and still is “America”—whatever that illusory dreamworld is: The biggest most irresponsible nation in the presentday world; the lover of creativity and invention—especially A-bombs and drones; the “Christian” soldiers that kill more old men, women and children than any other nation on earth and are still so scared that they aren’t “taking anything off the table” (even “nukes”) and breathe down the necks of their own people. A mere 1% of its wealthiest citizens harbor retrograde delusions of grandeur, concentrating the wealth of the world in the hands of a couple dozen megathieves in New York City operating a handful of industries that are literally eating the world alive.  Well, there’s no end to the “asymmetries” once you get started. “And the Oscar goes to .....?”

Last night Clooney and friends (150 of them) donated 15 million to Obama.  Would you say that all of them are part of the 1% corporate ruling class?

Also, When Jane Fonda went to Vietnam she and her film crew recorded on film what “Carpet Bombing looks like from the ground. The bombed out schools and hospitals; the corpses of Women and children dumped is mass graves for public health. None of this seemed to have made it to the Corporate Media; but they gave unlimited air-time to Fonda sitting in the anti-aircraft gun turret.

Obama and the Democrats repeatedly hold up Ronald Reagan nostalgically as what a reasonable Republican should look like. I would also guess that most Democrats would have no problem having their picture taken with Charlton Heston.

Jane Fonda on the other hand usually causes most Democrats to run for the hills! The very thought of her sitting in the “Gook” anti-aircraft gun; laughing and carrying on with the enemy as if they were just as human as we are? Personally, I think Fonda had more “balls”  and integrity than “The Gipper” and “Movie Moses” combined! Bottom line is that the Vietnamese did not attack us; therefore they were not our enemies. As a matter of fact they were “victims”  and Jane Fonda had the guts to point that out.