“I’ve tried to think of another business in America that cares less about its customers than the news business and I can’t think of any … their ideology trumps even their business sense and their desperate need to survive.” – Bernard Goldberg. (hat tip: Ed Driscoll)

Now, that comment hits hard against the news media, but it’s just as applicable to movies. How many anti-Iraq War movies have we seen since that war began … and how many failed? Why hasn’t Hollywood trotted out a half dozen clones of “The Passion of the Christ?”

A recent movie announcement shows this trend isn’t stopping any time soon.

Director Rod Lurie’s new film “Nothing But the Truth” got caught up in bankruptcy woes and had to flail away for a new distributor. Hardly a sign that there’s a big audience for a Valerie Plame-style story, right?

Well, then why is Sean Penn in talks to play Plame’s hubbie in a new drama about the CIA agent’s outing?

ideology often trumps business sense in Hollywood, too.

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