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“Profits above all else” was the fact that rang true on Tuesday’s edition of The Lead on CNN as anchor Jake Tapper and Wall Street Journal reporter Erich Schwartzel called out liberal Hollywood for capitulating to the censors in communist China to get their blood money.
This was the latest installment in Tapper’s series “Behind China’s Wall” where, as he put it, “we go behind the fanfare and the glamor of the current Olympic games” and call out China’s “crackdowns on freedoms and crimes humanity and genocide.” He said all this as an image of the Chinese flag loomed over the Hollywood sign was displayed over his shoulder.
Noting that “the Chinese government in effect censors much of what comes out of the Hollywood film industry,” Tapper explained: “They don't do this, of course, through direct control. They do it through their enormous economic leverage and the fear from studios on missing out on a market of 1.4 billion people in China.”
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