Thursday, September 07, 2006

The Path to 9/11 Dustup

ABC will be airing their “dramatization” The Path to 9/11 in a few short days.

In the Washington Post, Howard Kurtz informs us that certain Clinton adminstration officials are a bit put out over depicition of certain events as portrayed in the movie, excuse me, the “dramatization,” evidently concerned over the supposed legacy of Clinton and the yes men that surrounded him.

Madeleine Albright, Sandy Berger, and Bruce Lindsey are all on record as stating, in effect, that the dramatization is not accurate.

Well, is it any surprise that their contentions just might be correct?  I should think not, after all, it’s teevee we’re talking about here, that little electronic picture box which I think is a more of an opiate of the masses than religion.

How does ABC respond to the critcisms it is receiving regarding the dramatization?  Here’s a quote from Kurtz’s piece, from the executive producer of the show, Marc Platt,

Marc Platt, the film’s executive producer, said that although it “does contain composite and conflated scenes and representative characters and dialogue, we’ve worked very hard to be fair. If individuals feel they’re wrongly portrayed, that’s obviously of concern. We’ve portrayed the essence of the truth of these events.

“The essence of the truth.”  Says it all, doesn’t it?

Kurtz’s piece is titled Clinton Administration Officials Assail ABC’s ‘The Path to 9/11’

Posted by John Venlet on 09/07 at 06:57 AM
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