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For People Who Think Opposing ABC Is Censorship

4 Responses to “For People Who Think Opposing ABC Is Censorship”

1. Renee Says:
   September 9th, 2006 at 10:13 pm

   Come’ on Lynne see the positive side. I know you were in that targeted key demographic back in the late 80’s when ‘New Kids on the Block’ were big; it is a great opportunity to see Donnie Walhberg play a CIA agent in Afghanistan.

   Other then that seriously, I’m sensitive to censorship. Even a disclaimer on the docudrama isn’t enough when you look at the whole picture in context. This is being played during the five year anniversary and is seen as a historical/tribute of sorts to the events of September 11, 2001 and the days leadings up to it. Rather then editing, I would much rather have it placed in a less sensitive time frame and better off on a sister cable station due to any possible embellishing or over dramatizing of the day.

   I believe CBS had a Reagan miniseries that was protested, in which rather then editing they moved it to cable. I’m not sure if that miniseries was planned to be aired during a sensitive time frame though. I really have not been following the details of this particular miniseries, but I do see lines blurred with using historical/modern day persons and events to tell a fictional plotline.

   I had a personal experience with the DaVinci Code, in which someone attempted to discuss with me my religious beliefs through that book. I politely informed then that it was a book of fiction using historical figures, but they rebuttal specific parts as fact. If Dan Brown wanted to write a non-fictional book about his research, he may do so as a companion and cite references.

   In the end you just make the best of it, and use it as a teaching experience to educate your understanding and beliefs. Opus Dei the real life group fictionalized in Brown’s book and film to conspire secrets has pretty much made lemonade with lemons and informs the public who they are through the enormous amount of inquiries made regarding its organization and mission.

2. Paul@01852 Says:
   September 10th, 2006 at 5:08 am

   This is really scary:

   The ABC Miniseries

   The forthcoming ABC documentary on 9/11 represents a turning point in American political life and a touchstone which should help resolve some long-standing controversies about media bias. It also challenges working journalists to uncover some new relationships which are reducing the idea of an independent press to a joke. Its impact upon the forthcoming elections will say a great deal about where we are as a nation, but it might also even have some beneficial legal consequences, even if those will take a great deal of time to develop.

   What we have learned about the documentary makes clear that ABC has produced a piece of GOP agitprop that takes breathtaking, scandalous liberties with the facts. These extend even to the staging of incidents that never occurred, most notably, a supposed teleconference between a heroic CIA agent in Afghanistan and the leaders of the Clinton National Security team, who refuse to authorize the capture of a trapped Osama Bin Laden.

   [http://historyunfolding.blogspot.com/2006/09/abc-miniseries.html]

   Historian David Kaiser goes on to propose that this is not just an accident that ABC/Disney produces a movie so helpful to the Bushies and proves “that a corporate media can be as effectively manipulated as an actually controlled one—more so, in fact, since an explicitly state-controlled media inevitably loses more of its credibility than a free one.” He also proposes that it proves “that right-wing pressure on the media is far, far more influential than left-wing pressure, and that the mainstream media, if it ever had a genuine liberal bias, no longer has any at all.” What liberal media, indeed!

3. Mr. Lynne Says:
   September 10th, 2006 at 8:56 am

   Rene… as for the CBS miniseries… it was scheduled at a sensitive time and the righty blogs made a lot of hay about it.

   On the film’s timing with mention of the Regan piece:
   http://glenngreenwald.blogspot.com/2006/09/nsa-story-v-911-film-liberal-msm.html

   On right-wing hypocracy regarding their treatment of the Regan piece as compared to this 9/11 piece. Note the last update… there are conservatives who recognize the the problem:
   http://glenngreenwald.blogspot.com/2006/09/bush-supporters-condemn-fictionalized.html

4. hypnotize Says:
   October 9th, 2006 at 2:24 pm

   I guess free speech is still alive.. and ya’ gotta love Wordpress for it.
   Keep bloggin’… cuz I luv readin’ yer posts. : )
   - Anjie in Little Rock, AK

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