CLINTON AND FORMER OFFICIALS

[Dean iWait 0]

ABC alters 9/11 show under pressure

ABC's upcoming five-hour docudrama "The Path to 9/11" is quickly becoming a political cause célèbre.

The network has in recent days made changes to the film, set to air Sunday and Monday, after leading political figures, many of them Democrats, complained about bias and alleged inaccuracies. Meanwhile, a left-wing organization has launched a letter-writing campaign urging the network to "correct" or dump the miniseries, while conservative blogs have launched a vigorous defense.

Wow censorship is alive and well in America. Sad!

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ABC alters 9/11 show under pressure

ABC's upcoming five-hour docudrama "The Path to 9/11" is quickly becoming a political cause célèbre.

The network has in recent days made changes to the film, set to air Sunday and Monday, after leading political figures, many of them Democrats, complained about bias and alleged inaccuracies. Meanwhile, a left-wing organization has launched a letter-writing campaign urging the network to "correct" or dump the miniseries, while conservative blogs have launched a vigorous defense.

Wow censorship is alive and well in America. Sad!

Censorship is when changes are forced.

What you're seeing here are market forces in action.

[clloyd 0]

ABC alters 9/11 show under pressure

ABC's upcoming five-hour docudrama "The Path to 9/11" is quickly becoming a political cause célèbre.

The network has in recent days made changes to the film, set to air Sunday and Monday, after leading political figures, many of them Democrats, complained about bias and alleged inaccuracies. Meanwhile, a left-wing organization has launched a letter-writing campaign urging the network to "correct" or dump the miniseries, while conservative blogs have launched a vigorous defense.

Wow censorship is alive and well in America. Sad!

How exactly is that censorship?

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

The NY Post. A tabloid rag. Rupert Murdoch. You take what they print seriously?

From Wikipedia:

When Rupert Murdoch once asked the chairman of Bloomingdale's why he wasn't buying ads in the [NY] Post, he was allegedly told "because, dear Rupert, your readers are my shoplifters."

Edited September 7, 2006 by ET-US2004

[Marc and Olga 0]

The miniseries' creator and the 9/11 panel's former co-chairman, Tom Kean, who was a paid adviser on the film, said some scenes are made up and plan to include a statement at the show's beginning.

AND

the miniseries is also being provided to high schools as a teaching aid - although ABC admits key scenes are dramatizations.

Not a very good "teaching aid" if some of the "key" scenes are "made up", is it?

source though I used Gupt's tinyurl link to get there

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Edited September 7, 2006 by Gupt

[Marc and Olga 0]

I was concerned about that which is why I mentioned the tinyurl link you provided which is how I arrived at the page.

[clloyd 0]

I did get the story eventually. It quoted a letter not from Clinton himself.

"The content of this drama is factually and incontrovertibly inaccurate and ABC has the duty to fully correct all errors or pull the drama entirely," the four-page letter said.

The movie is set to air on Sunday and Monday nights. Monday is the fifth anniversary of the attacks.

Based on the 9/11 commission's report, the miniseries is also being provided to high schools as a teaching aid - although ABC admits key scenes are dramatizations.

The letter, written by Bruce Lindsey, head of the Clinton Foundation, and Douglas Bond, a top lawyer in Clinton's office, accuses the ABC drama of "bias" and a "fictitious rewriting of history that will be misinterpreted by millions of Americans."

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

I did get the story eventually. It quoted a letter not from Clinton himself.

"The content of this drama is factually and incontrovertibly inaccurate and ABC has the duty to fully correct all errors or pull the drama entirely," the four-page letter said.

The movie is set to air on Sunday and Monday nights. Monday is the fifth anniversary of the attacks.

Based on the 9/11 commission's report, the miniseries is also being provided to high schools as a teaching aid - although ABC admits key scenes are dramatizations.

The letter, written by Bruce Lindsey, head of the Clinton Foundation, and Douglas Bond, a top lawyer in Clinton's office, accuses the ABC drama of "bias" and a "fictitious rewriting of history that will be misinterpreted by millions of Americans."

Yet for reasons of dramatization and/or simplicity (gotta have your readers in mind), the NY Post just claims that Clinton wrote and Clinton demanded. What a worthless rag.

BTW, I agree that either you declare it fiction or you base it on facts. Once you start mixing reality and fiction, you start skating on thin ice. On the other hand, that might just get a job offer from today's White House.

[Dean iWait 0]

ABC alters 9/11 show under pressure

ABC's upcoming five-hour docudrama "The Path to 9/11" is quickly becoming a political cause célèbre.

The network has in recent days made changes to the film, set to air Sunday and Monday, after leading political figures, many of them Democrats, complained about bias and alleged inaccuracies. Meanwhile, a left-wing organization has launched a letter-writing campaign urging the network to "correct" or dump the miniseries, while conservative blogs have launched a vigorous defense.

Wow censorship is alive and well in America. Sad!

Censorship is when changes are forced.

What you're seeing here are market forces in action.

Market forces? Sorry, I'm not buying that. Clinton and his former admin. officials suceeded in forcing ABC to alter a movie. If that's not censoship I don't know what is.

I did get the story eventually. It quoted a letter not from Clinton himself.

"The content of this drama is factually and incontrovertibly inaccurate and ABC has the duty to fully correct all errors or pull the drama entirely," the four-page letter said.

The movie is set to air on Sunday and Monday nights. Monday is the fifth anniversary of the attacks.

Based on the 9/11 commission's report, the miniseries is also being provided to high schools as a teaching aid - although ABC admits key scenes are dramatizations.

The letter, written by Bruce Lindsey, head of the Clinton Foundation, and Douglas Bond, a top lawyer in Clinton's office, accuses the ABC drama of "bias" and a "fictitious rewriting of history that will be misinterpreted by millions of Americans."

Yet for reasons of dramatization and/or simplicity (gotta have your readers in mind), the NY Post just claims that Clinton wrote and Clinton demanded. What a worthless rag.

BTW, I agree that either you declare it fiction or you base it on facts. Once you start mixing reality and fiction, you start skating on thin ice. On the other hand, that might just get a job offer from today's White House.

So I guess you would rather blindly trust Clinton and his officials that they are telling the truth on this? He only lied to a grand jury. I'm sure he wouldn't lie to anyone else. I'd much rather see an uncut version myself of any movie not just this one. And from my understanding they didn't base this solely on the 9/11 commission report, only part of it. That is stated at the beggining of the movie apparently.

[*Robert* 2]

clinton was a worthless president, and all his misdeeds should be exposed... he shouldn't get off with just the monica affair...

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

So I guess you would rather blindly trust Clinton and his officials that they are telling the truth on this?

Do you read what you provide links to?

ABC's entertainment division said the six-hour movie, "The Path to 9/11," will say in a disclaimer that it is a "dramatization . . . not a documentary" and contains "fictionalized scenes." But the disclaimer also says the movie is based on the Sept. 11 commission's report, although that report contradicts several key scenes.

...

Berger is seen as refusing authorization for a proposed raid to capture bin Laden in spring 1998 to CIA operatives in Afghanistan who have the terrorist leader in their sights. A CIA operative sends a message: "We're ready to load the package. Repeat, do we have clearance to load the package?" Berger responds: "I don't have that authority."

Berger said that neither he nor Clinton ever rejected a CIA or military request to conduct an operation against bin Laden. The Sept. 11 commission said no CIA operatives were poised to attack; that Afghanistan's rebel Northern Alliance was not involved, as the film says; and that then-CIA Director George J. Tenet decided the plan would not work.

...and so on

Read what you post. It's not just Clinton's folks saying that much of the production is fabricated. It's the 9/11 commission saying the same thing. But you go ahead and keep on relying on Murdoch's rag...

[Marc and Olga 0]

clinton was a worthless president, and all his misdeeds should be exposed... he shouldn't get off with just the monica affair...

pun intended?

So I guess you would rather blindly trust Clinton and his officials that they are telling the truth on this?

Do you read what you provide links to?

ABC's entertainment division said the six-hour movie, "The Path to 9/11," will say in a disclaimer that it is a "dramatization . . . not a documentary" and contains "fictionalized scenes." But the disclaimer also says the movie is based on the Sept. 11 commission's report, although that report contradicts several key scenes.

...

Berger is seen as refusing authorization for a proposed raid to capture bin Laden in spring 1998 to CIA operatives in Afghanistan who have the terrorist leader in their sights. A CIA operative sends a message: "We're ready to load the package. Repeat, do we have clearance to load the package?" Berger responds: "I don't have that authority."

Berger said that neither he nor Clinton ever rejected a CIA or military request to conduct an operation against bin Laden. The Sept. 11 commission said no CIA operatives were poised to attack; that Afghanistan's rebel Northern Alliance was not involved, as the film says; and that then-CIA Director George J. Tenet decided the plan would not work.

...and so on

Read what you post. It's not just Clinton's folks saying that much of the production is fabricated. It's the 9/11 commission saying the same thing. But you go ahead and keep on relying on Murdoch's rag...

The problem is despite the disclaimer that parts are based on fact, parts are not, we the people will take it as fact...which it clearly should be taken mostly as fiction since the show will not stop and say "this part is fact" and "this part is dramatization".

Edited September 7, 2006 by Marc and Olga

[Nagishkaw 510]

Larry Flint

[*Robert* 2]

Larry Flint

now that was a good movie!!!

clinton was a worthless president, and all his misdeeds should be exposed... he shouldn't get off with just the monica affair...

pun intended?

I didn't notice that when I wrote it... but YES!!!

You don't think the he and Hillary get off together do you?!!!

*ewwwwwwww*

Bad images!!!