{"article":{"id":92925,"heading":"Goverment boycott threats CBS","author":" JIM RUTENBERG and BILL CARTER","created":"2003-11-05 08:02:26","modified":"2005-08-15 01:47:01","last_modified":"Mon, 15 Aug 2005 08:47:01","article":"<p>Under pressure from Republican and conservative groups, CBS is expected to announce as early as today that it is canceling its plans to run a two-part mini-series in November deconstructing the Ronald Reagan presidency, two people close to the decision said last night. <br><br> They said the film would most likely instead be handed over to CBS's pay-cable sibling, Showtime. <br>  <br> Advertisement <br><br> The announcement would perhaps the first time a major broadcast network has ever removed a completed project from its schedule because of political pressure and under the threat of an advertising boycott. <br><br> (An earlier article about the possibility that CBS would scrap the four-hour mini-series appears in the Arts section, which went to press before the latest development.) <br><br> CBS executives have been reworking the film over the last week, trying to fix what many critics - none of whom had seen the film and were relying mostly on a report in The New York Times about its contents - called inaccurate and unfair portrayals of the former president. <br><br> The CBS chairman, Les Moonves, became concerned amid those complaints and ordered a revision of the film, several people close to the process said.  <br><br> Showtime, which like CBS is a division of Viacom, does not have the same advertising and ratings concerns as does the broadcast network. With a mission to garner enough water-cooler talk to draw new subscribers, premium pay cable networks like Showtime are less concerned with their overall ratings pictures and thus less susceptible to boycott threats.<\/p>\n","contact":"","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"image\/gif","summary":"","numcomment":3,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/2003\/11\/rredwhtblu.gif","filesize":"5.4 kibibytes","article_url":"\/news\/2003\/11\/92925.php","image":{"original":"\/uploads\/2003\/11\/rredwhtblu.gif"}},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":92968,"heading":"The Grteat Beast is protected by the Neo-cons","article":"Ronald=6 letters\r\nWilson=6 letters\r\nReagan=6 letters\r\n\r\n666=The Great Beast","author":"Marlowe","parent_id":92925,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-11-05 16:56:32","modified":"2003-11-05 16:56:32","fileurl":""},{"id":92975,"heading":"666","article":"You idiots get both funnier and more stupid by the moment.","author":"777","parent_id":92925,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-11-05 17:14:51","modified":"2003-11-05 17:14:51","fileurl":""}]}