Subject: RE: Sept. 11 docu-drama Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2006 12:39:13 -0500 Message-ID: <B14120EE5C432443B21102F7925DAD0203FE8D89@COKE.uwec.edu> 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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Jill Markgraf
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Subject: consider this!
If you haven't gotten this action alert, PLEASE CONSIDER acting on this.
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INTERESTED.
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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