{"521841":{"#nid":"521841","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Besedes Appears on Radio to Discuss Disney Threat","body":[{"value":"\u0022For productions in Georgia, if you spend half a million dollars, you get a 20% tax break ... plus 10% if you put a peach in the movie credits,\u0022 -Tibor Besedes on some of the tax breaks Georgia gives to production companies.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cp\u003EGovernor Nathan Deal recently rejected controversial \u2018religious liberties\u2019 legislation that created a nationwide uproar. Alongside outcry from social activists who say the bill legalized discrimination against LGBT people, production companies for TV and film vowed to end their association with Georgia if the bill became law. Many feel that Hollywood\u2019s billions ultimately defeated the fledgling bill, but did social activism play an equal or greater role?\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis morning, Associate Professor Tibor Besedes appeared alongside Salon writer Daniel Denvir and research Matthew Mitchell from the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.\u0026nbsp; \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/gpbnews.org\/post\/hollywood-vs-hb757-does-money-outweigh-social-activism?utm_source=feedburner\u0026amp;utm_medium=feed\u0026amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+gpbnews%2FAtlantaRSS+%28Atlanta+RSS%29\u0022\u003EListen here\u003C\/a\u003E to hear all that they said on Georgia Public Broadcasting\u0027s On Second Thought.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAssociate Professor Tibor Besedes spoke about Disney\u0027s threat to pull out of Georgia due to controversial legislation on GPB\u0027s On Second Thought.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Associate Professor Tibor Besedes spoke about Disney\u0027s threat to pull out of Georgia due to controversial legislation on GPB\u0027s On Second Thought.."}],"uid":"27365","created_gmt":"2016-04-05 15:18:56","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:21:17","author":"Jade Hill","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-04-05T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-04-05T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"427711":{"id":"427711","type":"image","title":"Tibor Besedes Speaking on On Second Thought","body":null,"created":"1449254342","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 18:39:02","changed":"1475895167","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:52:47","alt":"Tibor Besedes Speaking on On Second Thought","file":{"fid":"202799","name":"2015-07-14_09.35.38_hdr.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/2015-07-14_09.35.38_hdr_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/2015-07-14_09.35.38_hdr_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":254979,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/2015-07-14_09.35.38_hdr_0.jpg?itok=ON1NREZy"}}},"media_ids":["427711"],"groups":[{"id":"1282","name":"School of Economics"}],"categories":[{"id":"131","name":"Economic Development and Policy"},{"id":"143","name":"Digital Media and Entertainment"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2794","name":"disney"},{"id":"10483","name":"hollywood"},{"id":"127651","name":"on second thought"},{"id":"167037","name":"school of economics"},{"id":"171891","name":"Social Activism"},{"id":"41811","name":"tibor besedes"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJade Hill, Communications Coordinator, School of Economics\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jade.hill@econ.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejade.hill@econ.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jade.hill@econ.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}