And if it was left in there would be just as many people complaining about that.

One of our traditions is to watch "White Christmas" on Christmas Eve.  We lost the ability to play media files on our big screen during our recent (well, ok.  4 months ago) move so through all the fault of my own, we got stuck watching courtesy of the CBC.  The film normally runs 120 minutes.  8 minutes were removed to make it fit (with 6 - 4 minute commercial breaks loaded with promos) into the 150 minute schedule window.  To anyone who knows the movie well, the cuts were painful. 
 

I recall the airing of 'Street Trash'. They removed the 'play football with the severed penis' scene, but amazingly preserved the 'fuck the dead whore's corpse on the beach' scene. Odd how Fox News didn't get sand up their peehoie about that.

Reviewing the comments at the end the the story; the CBC claims they made the cuts in 2014 after they purchased the rights to the movie. The reason was to accommodate the broadcast time slot. In 2014 Mr. Trump was not as 'controversial' as he is today. Apparently 8 minutes were cut from the movie; scenes other than the Trump one were also eliminated.

If the 2014 story is true one could accept this explanation as a benign act, however I have no way of fact checking the accuracy of CBC's explanation.

I'm pretty skeptical of anything I hear on / from the CBC. In this case I will give them the benefit of the doubt.

The big thing that CBC has going for it would be the fact that they wouldn't re-edit a movie every year. The only way to prove otherwise would be if someone had a PVR or tape of a CBC airing from years ago that showed Trump in the scene. If they are lying about this, then shame on CBC.

CBC bought the rights in 2014 and they have shown Home Alone 2 around Christmas for the last 4 or 5 years. They would edit the movie prior to the first showing, and the job is done. They did mention that some other scenes that included shots of the World Trade Center were also deleted as were a few others that didn't effect the plot of the movie. Donald's scene edited in or out does not change the story line of the movie.

Fox News is being misleading calling this "censorship".  They do the exact same thing with any theatrical movies shown on their network.  The program needs to time out and  networks have to allow for the commercial breaks. No doubt Fox would have left Donald's scene in.  Back in 2014 or 2015, Donald Trump was not as big a deal and considerably less so in Canada. 

 

darcyh wrote:

I'm pretty skeptical of anything I hear on / from the CBC.

They won 51 RTDNA awards last year.  How many do you have?  

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