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Duty only to the shareholders. no. everyone who is covered by the first amendment, they have a fiduciary duty to the first amendment. they should have said, north korea, more people will see this film because of what you did than anything that would have happened had you not done this. they are not going to let you censor american films. that was the bottom line that should have been expressed and it took too long to say it and it was done too weakly and david is a great lawyer but hes been very...

Voices. andrew wallinstein is back with us and in miami alan dershowitz who has called this the pearl har bon harbor on first amendment and gary michael williams. tell me about what you said earlier on cnn, pearl harbor on the first amendment. >> this is a frontal attack on our freedoms. its a diversified attack. its a high-tech attack through the hacking but its also a low tech attack through the threats and its not the first one. remember that theo van gogh was murdered for producing a film ca...

My artists ever. >> i agree with that. >> we are a defender of artists rights. thats our sole mission as financers of independent feature film. >> a year ago i wrote in my book "taking the stand" the greatest danger to the first amendment will come frin the future from self-censorship. i worry about self-censorship from islamic extremists. this is only a coming attraction from what we will get from iran. this dictator managed to get what no american president can do, censor a film because of its...

Logic. >> reporter: comedian d.l. hughly says yen know can get back on top. >> if anything, he was on a brief sabbatical. but i think hell hit the ground running like he always had. >> reporter: hughly says viewers want to see leno back in the chair now that the nbc controversy has cooled. thanks to the ratings success from the winter olympics that replaced lenos struggling prime time show this month. still media critic andrew wallinstein says -- thank you. >> straight to the president of the ...