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Three Ex-Clinton Officials Slam 9/11 "Docudrama" Mini-Series

abc911.jpgThe NY Times and a host of other news outlets report that three officials of the Clinton administration - former Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright, former national security adviser, Samuel R. Berger, and Bruce R. Lindsey, a Clinton White House aide now with the Clinton Foundation -- have written the chief executive of the Walt Disney Company, ABC’s parent, to complain that the network’s coming two-part miniseries “The Path to 9/11” is fraught with factual errors and fabrications. Their demands that the show be corrected or pulled were echoed yesterday by several Democratic members of Congress. Note that none of them is named Bill Clinton.

As if irresponsible filmmaking weren't enough, The NY Post - that pathetic fish wrapper - screams "BUBBA GOES BALLISTIC ON ABC ABOUT ITS DAMNING 9/11 MOVIE, INSISTS NET PULL DRAMA"

ABC, meanwhile, maintains that the mini-series, though largely drawn from the report of the Sept. 11 commission, was a dramatization, not a documentary, and that they had to "render it as dramatic."

“Sept. 11 is not ‘entertainment,’ it is reality,” Ms. Albright wrote Mr. Iger. “Before you air your broadcast, I trust you will ensure you have the facts right.”

I'm a 9/11 survivor. Absolutely nothing about Sept. 11, 2001 was entertaining and there's no reason to make it any more dramatic.


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BL Ochman | Sep 7 06 3:26 | TrackBack (0)

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It just shows how low the network will go when their viewer ratings sink even lower. Pretty soon, we'll see people dying on TV. Oh, wait that's about to happen with Crikey!

All of this is makes me happy I haven't owned or watched TV in four years. How do I feel? Pretty good. I don't stress out as much and I am certainly not caught up with mindless fads that come and go over the years.

In the end, our society is creating perfect drones that watch TV and follow a turmoil of emotions that are neither theirs, nor have any relevancy to their lives. Yet they live through those ephemeral made-imposed feelings.

Ugly, ugly ABC and friends. I lived in NYC on 9-11. Anyone seeing this as entertainment is utterly sick and beyond peeping-tomming.

Posted by: Nick at September 7, 2006 6:15 PM

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