‘Left, Right & Center’: The Sony Hack and Cuba
Truthdig Editor-in-Chief Robert Scheer and the other "Left, Right & Center" panelists discuss Obama's year-end news conference, during which the president said Sony should have consulted him before canceling the release of "The Interview." Also, is it a new world for Cuba?
The main entrance to the Sony Pictures Entertainment studio lot in Culver City, Calif. Photo by Coolcaesar (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Truthdig Editor-in-Chief Robert Scheer and the other “Left, Right & Center” panelists discuss Obama’s year-end news conference, during which the president said Sony should have consulted him before canceling the release of “The Interview.” Also, is it a new world for Cuba?
Special guest Josh Barro of The New York Times says Sony’s behavior was cowardly, but also a rational reaction, and that the government should seize the movie by eminent domain and release it. Rich Lowry of National Review, who gives the view from the right, thinks Sony should have released the movie, and says refusing to do is like Adolf Hitler being able to reach into this country and stop Charlie Chapman from making fun of him. “It’s all fun and games when it’s Seth Rogen, but what happens when it’s a New York Times reporter?” he asks. Scheer’s new book, “They Know Everything About You,” fits right into the conversation.
Listen here.
— Posted by Alexander Reed Kelly.
In 2026, amid chaos and the nonstop flurry of headlines, Truthdig remains independent, fact-based and focused on exposing what power tries to hide.
Support Independent Journalism.
TD Interview
Marc Cooper, Dig Curator and former translator to President Allende, speaks to KPFK Radio's Suzi Weissman about the complex historical forces at work today in Chile.
Dig Scape
Will microdosing finally bring them home?
The class war that gave rise to his campaign is the fault of a long line of corporate Democrats like Joe Biden, and voters know it.
A new book shows how the activist's positions on issues like the Vietnam War and environmental justice helped move civil rights leaders left.
Intelligence expert William Binney discusses the revelation that a widely used encryption service has been in government hands for decades.
“The way you get the guns out of the kids’ hands is to throw them up against the walls and frisk them.”
You need to be a supporter to comment.
There are currently no responses to this article.
Be the first to respond.