Has anyone been following this? Apparently, NASA employees at Maryland's Goddard Space Flight Center were directed to not give any interviews about the upocoming disaster flick The Day After Tomorrow. The thought is that the movie would cause a backlash against President Bush for poor environmentalist policies. Later, NASA said they would make scientisits available to discuss climate change with the media.

Ummm..OK. Since when did every piece of fiction automatically become a political or social statement? True, some authors write stories with social commentary in mind. Still, I long for the days when a story was just that.

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Posted by John DeNardo at Tuesday April 27, 2004 at 12:51 PM
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