NYT falsely suggested that only Clinton administration officials objected to ABC's "Path to 9/11"

[DeepModem Mom]

Media Matters for America: Again ignoring numerous falsehoods, NY Times falsely suggested that only Clinton administration officials objected to ABC's Path to 9/11

In a May 14 article about the upcoming HBO film Recount, New York Times writer Edward Wyatt reported, "In 2006 ABC made changes to 'The Path to 9/11' after complaints from former Clinton administration officials that it portrayed them as less than vigilant in their pursuit of Osama bin Laden," but did not note that, despite editing, the final version of the ABC miniseries still included several fabricated scenes, falsehoods, and sharp discrepancies between its account of certain events and the findings laid out in the 9-11 Commission's report. Indeed, Wyatt himself wrote in a September 18, 2006, Times article: "It's little wonder that ABC's mini-series 'The Path to 9/11' drew stinging criticism earlier this month for its invented scenes, fabricated dialogue and unsubstantiated accounts of how the Clinton and Bush administrations conducted themselves in the years encompassing the World Trade Center attacks of 1993 and 2001." These falsehoods and discrepancies have been noted by Media Matters for America and numerous others.

In mentioning only "complaints from former Clinton administration officials" -- and not actual falsehoods in the movie -- the May 14 article repeated the Times' 2006 suggestion that criticism of the movie was leveled exclusively by former Clinton officials upset at their portrayal in the film. In fact, the film was criticized for its falsehoods regarding both the Clinton and the Bush administrations' handling of the terrorist threat by people from across the political spectrum, including journalists and participants in the film's production as well as a number of conservative commentators, as Media Matters has documented....

http://mediamatters.org/items/200805160006?f=h_latest

[leftofcool]

1. The media so enjoys lying about the Clintons

[Tunkamerica]

2. see, i didn't se that as the point of the article.

i saw it as the NYT ignoring all the other people who had a problem with it.

[Pab Sungenis]

3. I think my post "ABC, stop lying about my friend John O'Neill" is still in the archives.

I complained loudly because of their misrepresentation of John O'Neill, and I'm as far from a Clinton Administration official as you can find on this side of the aisle.