Parker Selfridge is the head administrator of the RDA on Pandora.
The Resources Development Administration, or RDA, is the largest single non-governmental organization in human space. Its power is such that it outmatches most of Earth governments in wealth, political influence, and military capability.
The RDA has monopoly rights to all products shipped, derived, or developed from Pandora and any other off-Earth location.
The Avatar Program:
Under strong pressure from the UN, scientists and the general public, the RDA agreed to set up a program to enhance communications between humans and Na’vi.
At first this consisted solely of an Indigenous Terrain program to study Na’vi culture and language and to attempt to establish communication between man and Na’vi.
Originally part of RDA’s Na’vi outreach program instigated at the behest of Earth government authorities, the Avatar Program has moved from being a poorly-defined xenobiological experiment controlled by Earth-based bureaucrats, ivory-tower academics and populist politicians to become a tightly-managed engineering project incorporating the most advanced technology from RDA’s labs.
The original script has a character named Marcia de los Santos, she is the Freemedia Officer:
It is her job to send home the inspiring footage used for corporate advertising and recruiting, though technically she is keeping a full and impartial record of the operation at Hell's Gate.
Selfridge heavily edits her downlinks to Earth, claiming the "expense" of data transmission, but really it is ironfisted censorship.
And according to this James-Cameron-approved guidebook:
The cost of sending a message to earth is "approximately $7,500 per bit".
So I think it's possible that messages to Earth had to be approved by Selfridge. That could explain why Grace never talked to someone on Earth about her frustration.
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