Here’s a link to Tim Robbins’s speech last week to the National Association of Broadcasters (audio here). Hilarious and daring but perhaps a tad misdirected.
“I’m here to tell you that we don’t need to look at the car crash,” he pleaded. “We don’t need to live off the pain and humiliation of the unfortunate. We don’t need to celebrate our pornographic obsession with celebrity culture. We are better than that.” Then he called on the audience of broadcast executives to think beyond their business interests and save America.
As I say, great but… broadcast execs? I don’t think any one in history has ever guilted an American corporate leader into giving up profit. Needless to say, better to target the people who pretended to care in the first place– like the government officials making policies and going to war and acting in every way like people looking at nothing but the bottom line.
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