RE: Sept. 11 docu-drama

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Hinnant, Katherine S. (HINNANKS@uwec.edu)
Fri, 8 Sep 2006 12:39:13 -0500



Subject: RE: Sept. 11 docu-drama
Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2006 12:39:13 -0500
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From: "Hinnant, Katherine S." <HINNANKS@uwec.edu>

There was a report this morning that they are considering pulling the whole docu-drama, or mocku-drama as some call it. They said yesterday that they are still editing the most controversial scenes, and that criticism was premature. However, they have distributed copies among conservative bloggers and media outlets, while refusing to give copies to Clinton, Albright, etc.
  Even though it seems like ABC/Disney is starting to get the message, it is still important to continue applying pressure. Scholastic has backed out of their engagement with the project, removing their supplementary material on the web, although the classroom materials that they produced in hardcopy were already mailed to the schools by the time they changed their mind. So another thing that parents of school age children might want to do is call their schools and find out what is planned, if anything, surrounding this program. I was very surprised that Scholastic thought it was a good idea to feature such an propagandist film, produced by a fairly extreme right-wing director, in the public schools.
  Kate Hinnant
 
 

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[mailto:sfpj-request@listserve.uwec.edu] On Behalf Of Markgraf, Jill S. Sent: Friday, September 08, 2006 12:19 PM To: sfpj@listserve.uwec.edu Subject: Sept. 11 docu-drama

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_______________________________ Jill Markgraf Assoc. Professor Distance Education & Reference Librarian McIntyre Library University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
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  ABC: Tell the Truth About 9/11 - (see news stories by googling)

On September 10th and 11th, ABC -- which is owned by Disney -- is planning to air a "docu-drama" called "Path to 9/11," which is being billed as "an objective telling of the events of 9/11." In fact, the film was written by an unabashed conservative
<http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/01/nowrasteh-conservative-activist/> who twists the facts
<http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/09/04/hijacking-911/> to blame President Clinton
<http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/01/abc-blame-clinton/> .

In fact, the list of counterterrorism initiatives
<http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/083006J.shtml> undertaken by the Clinton administration is lengthy and comprehensive. Regrettably, the record shows that most of these efforts were watered down or abandoned by the Bush administration when they came into office. History will also record that President Bush was the one who received -- and while on vacation, chose to ignore -- a Presidential Daily Briefing on August 6, 2001 entitled "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in US."

ABC's new six-hour film was apparently screened in advance
<http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/09/04/hijacking-911/> only to conservative bloggers and journalists -- and received extensive praise from none other than Rush Limbaugh. ABC is advertising the film as being
"based on the 9/11 Commission report" -- yet also admits that it's a
"docu-drama," in which writers and producers are free to invent and distort facts. (TODAY (Thurs.) on MSNBC they had a publisher on who said they now have admitted some scenes are TOTALLY FABRICATED "for dramatic effect", yet this is playing like a documentary, and you know much of the public will see it that way). Former counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke has already completely refuted
<http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/05/clarke-blasts-abc/> one of the key scenes of the movie. Clinton's Sandy Berger said some of the scenes depicting him are completely false.

It's simply stunning to think that as this fall's election approaches, a major television network would devote six hours of prime-time programming to air such a slanted and inaccurate program. There is simply no way that a conservative writer, with an anti-Clinton axe to grind, should be allowed to use public airwaves to broadcast a gross distortion of the truth -- especially on the anniversary of the worst day in our history.

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