BBC did not know of (ABC's Path to) 9/11 film's link to religious right

[sabra]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/september11/story/0,,1871149,00.html

BBC did not know of 9/11 film's link to religious right

The Guardian


The BBC broadcast a controversial docu-drama, The Path to 9/11, this week without realising that it had been made by a member of the US religious right.

...

A BBC spokesman said the organisation did not vet film-makers on their political or religious beliefs.

The film's director, David Cunningham, is active in Youth With a Mission (Ywam), a fundamentalist evangelical organisation founded by his father, Loren Cunningham. According to its publications, the group believes in demonic possession, spiritual healing and conservative sexual morality.

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But yesterday, the BBC said it had warned at the start of the programme: "The movie is not a documentary. For dramatic and narrative purposes, the movie contains fictionalised scenes."

[Warpy]

Too bad they didn't say "for PROPAGANDA purposes

this movie contains HISTORICALLY INACCURATE scenes."

It's really easy to sue for libel in the UK. Somebody needs to.

[glitch]

15. Their statement implies the blatant lies were true events fictionalized

for dramatic purposes. And they didn't bother to vet the producers? Everybody here knew who the producers were before it ran.

What assholes.

[sweetheart]

1. The BBC has been corrupted...

it bows to the godhead of tony blair and whatever he's lied about, puts up
films to give it credence, in a desperate attempt to salvage corporatism from
americanism.

[Anakin Skywalker]

8. And Tony Blair Bows to the

dickhead of George W. :)

[BootinUp]

2. correction: "for dramatic and propaganda spreading purposes..."

[DesEtoiles]

3. bullshit

[Benhurst]

7. ...

:thumbsup:

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

20. ...

:thumbsup:

[VegasWolf]

4. Maybe so. Will the last person who still trusts main stream media please

turn off the lights when they finally get it.

[orleans]

5. maybe if they would listen to what greg palast has to say.....n/t

[young_at_heart]

6. Wouldn't they have screened it before showing such a controversial film?

It's hard to believe they were so "innocent".

[Miss Chybil]

9. They should have read DU. We knew. nt

[Erika]

10. Shame on ABC for right wing theocratic propaganda

disguised as a docudrama. Scholastic better be on notice also.

[NVMojo]

11. yep, christians have become the liars of the decade thanks to the fundies

[lumberjack_jeff]

12. A better disclaimer

This movie is bullshit.... but on the plus side, it's filmed with shaky cameras.

[OneBlueSky]

13. no surprise that the link to the religious right is NOT being reported . .

by the corporate media -- television OR newspapers -- as far as I can see . . . maybe it will break in one of the news mags, but I'm not holding my breath . . .

there was a time when the media would have been all over a story like this . . . and it wasn't long ago . . .

[Eurobabe]

14. Oh yeah right, give me a break.

[daleo]

16. I don't believe it

They knew.

[GeorgeGist]

17. BBC...

Bloody,
Bullshiting,
Cowards

[mhatrw]

18. Of course, we need to look to the Brits to see this reported.

Our media sucks!

We need to look to the Brits to see this story reported and we need to look Canada to see the 9/11 Ground Zero EPA scandal and health crisis reported: http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/toxiclegacy/index.html

[Supersedeas]

19. That's the gravaman