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kpete

(71,986 posts)
Mon Feb 29, 2016, 12:14 PM Feb 2016

Wanted you to see this clip from Oscars that ABC and CNN have CUT from their coverage.

Leonardo DiCaprio: “Support leaders around the world who do not speak for the big corporations”



Notice how CNN omits the phrase (in the clip above) from its print reporting.

"Climate change is real. It is happening right now; we needed to go to the tip of South America to find snow. ... It is the most urgent threat facing our entire species," he said. "We need to support leaders around the world who speak for indigenous people, for humanity, the voices who have been drowned out by the politics of greed. Do not take this planet for granted. ... I do not take this night for granted. Thank you."

http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/28/entertainment/oscars-2016-feat/


http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/2/29/1493149/-Wanted-you-to-see-this-clip-from-Oscars-that-ABC-and-CNN-have-cut-from-their-coverage


White House ✔ ?@WhiteHouse
“Climate change is real...let's not take this planet for granted."

Thank you, @LeoDiCaprio.
#ActOnClimate #Oscars pic.twitter.com/AHfflR6VkN
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Transcript Of Leonardo DiCaprio's Oscars Acceptance Speech Gets Political About Climate Change:
http://www.bustle.com/articles/144803-transcript-of-leonardo-dicaprios-oscars-acceptance-speech-gets-political-about-climate-change-video
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Raster

(20,998 posts)
1. I was standing and applauding in my living room at DiCaprio's acceptance speech...
Mon Feb 29, 2016, 12:20 PM
Feb 2016

...tears running down my cheeks.

We are already deep in the midst of Fascism Lite-R- in the United States... fascism with pretty faces and images that we can all genially overlook as we plod through our days and render service to our corporate overlords.

davekriss

(4,616 posts)
7. Bertram Gross' friendly fascism - more recently, Sheldon Wolin's inverted totalitarianism
Mon Feb 29, 2016, 11:05 PM
Feb 2016

It can indeed happen here - it already has, albeit with a friendly face.

lunamagica

(9,967 posts)
3. They didn't cut it from the broadcast
Mon Feb 29, 2016, 12:31 PM
Feb 2016

Or are you expecting them to show every winners acceptance speech?

islandmkl

(5,275 posts)
4. what's a little corporate media editing...after all, they are SO pressed for time..
Mon Feb 29, 2016, 02:03 PM
Feb 2016

they have to give Trump all the minutes and seconds they can...among other things...

lunamagica

(9,967 posts)
5. Apples and oranges. Are they broadcasting the other winners entire speeches? No, they aren't
Mon Feb 29, 2016, 02:26 PM
Feb 2016

They are reporting on the Oscars the way they always have.

AxionExcel

(755 posts)
6. Corporations are trying to CENSOR this all over the freaking place
Mon Feb 29, 2016, 03:47 PM
Feb 2016

They really don't want the people to hear this, or to think about it.

Thanks for recording and posting KPete.

And thank you Leo for speaking truth to power.

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