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‘Progressive’ Nonprofit Urges Politically Themed Movies

July 27, 2010
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‘Progressive’ Nonprofit Urges Politically Themed Movies

A public policy focused nonprofit is getting into the movie business. It wants Hollywood to produce more social and politically themed products selling the George Soros worldview. From the New York Times: The Harmony Institute wants to change your mind — at the movies. In the last few weeks, a little-noticed nonprofit with big ideas about the persuasive power of movies and television shows quietly began an initiative aimed at getting filmmakers and others to use the insights and techniques of behavioral psychology in delivering social and political messages through their work. John S. Johnson III, a descendant of Robert Wood Johnson – founder of Johnson & Johnson, doesn’t want more movies like An Inconvenient Truth, Bowling for Columbine, or Capitalism: A Love Story. He wants more movies like The Day After Tomorrow or The Day the Earth Stood Still remake: Mr. Johnson made a study of what his group calls “the science of influence,” with the help of friends like Kenneth Broad, a director of Columbia’s Center for Research on Environmental Decisions, and Eric Johnson, a professor of business and marketing at Columbia, both of whom are now on the institute’s advisory committee. Michael Douglas, the actor, who according

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