Speaking during the Torino Film Festival, the same posh film event in northern Italy in which Sharon Stone went on the attack against her fellow Americans, calling them “naive” and “ignorant,” 66-year-old actor Alec Baldwin went on a similar line of attack and claimed that most Americans are “uninformed” about the world.
Baldwin said this when speaking at the film festival, for which he was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award. His comments largely revolved around attacking American television as a black hole of information that Americans get little out of, leaving them “very uninformed about reality.”
Beginning, Baldwin noted that the news in America is a money-making business rather than a public service, implying that the money-making aspect takes precedence, which means it is of lesser quality than not-for-profit news. He said, “Television news in the United States is a business. They have to make money.”
Continuing, Baldwin went on to claim that the news has left Americans uninformed about issues like “climate change” and “Israel,” saying, “There’s a hole, there’s a vacuum. There is a gap, if you will, in information for Americans. Americans are very uninformed about reality, what’s really going on — climate change, Ukraine, Israel — you name it.”
On that same note, he then seemed to argue that movies inform America better than the news, saying, “The biggest topics in the world, Americans have an appetite for a little bit of information. That vacuum is filled by the film industry. Not just the independent film industry, not just the documentary film industry… but by narrative films as well.”
Then, when asked by a journalist with The Hollywood Reporter about the incoming Trump administration, Baldwin dodged and claimed that “permafrost” is one of the “real problems to solve,” saying, “There are many challenges to face. The environment, the problem of plastic, of permafrost: There are plastic molecules in every corner of the planet. These are the real problems to solve.”
Continuing the ramble, Baldwin declared that all public buildings need solar panels on the roof as an “alternative energy component,” saying, “It will be necessary for every building to have an alternative energy component. Every hospital, school, airport and government building will have to have photovoltaic panels on the roof.”
Building on that, he declared that states will need to be forced to go along with the plan, though he admitted that some services will continue to rely on the internal combustion engine. He said, “We must force states to work on alternative energy sources. But we will never get rid of oil and gas. Can you imagine an ambulance car or a fire department car that runs on electricity and has to be refueled at a charging station?”
Watch Baldwin here:
Commenting on a post from The Hollywood Reporter about the incident, one person noted the utter irony of Baldwin’s remarks, saying, “Baldwin complains that American news is effectively censored. He says this with a straight face, in an interview he effectively censored by putting conditions on the topics that can be discussed. The irony escapes him.”
On much the same note, another commenter said, “‘Actors’ are the most self obsessed, pampered and shielded people in America. He has no idea what real life is. If you want to get a clue ask his minimum wage ‘personal assistant’ who carries his phone because he is too “important” to actually answer it. I work with these people.”
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