Scholastic Has Possibly Yanked "Path To 9/11" Propaganda?

[Hissyspit]

From allspinzone and thinkprogress:

http://allspinzone.com/blog/index.php?itemid=3311

BREAKING: Did Scholastic Yank 'Path to 9/11' Propaganda?
Two days ago, I wrote about Scholastic Books catapulting the “Path to 9/11” propaganda. More than 400 comments were made at a crossposting that I did on Daily Kos, the vast majority of the comments containing excellent suggestions for action, and outrage that Scholastic would be supporting this crock-u-mentary with propaganda reinforcement.

Scholastic was flooded with calls and emails of protest and righteous indignation. Tonight, the material is no longer on Scholastic's website. Poof. Disappeared.

From a comment in this subsequent DKos diary, the commentor tried to click through on the link to Scholastic's resource website earlier this evening. This is the link we were all hitting yesterday for our research.

Tonight, the link comes up to a blank search page. Thinking this was merely a site problem or something, I did a quick search of the Scholastic website. Nothing. Nada. Zip. Zilch. Bupkis.

In Tom Kean's “letter to educators” (which is still on the Scholastic site, but maybe just hasn't been scrubbed yet), he encouraged them to go to this link (which is a root directory to all of the Path to 9/11 material).

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Update: The PDF's are still online, but are not linked anywhere on Scholastic's website. The main page is gone, as is the introduction, so perhaps the PDF's just haven't been scrubbed yet. I'm cautiously optimistic that we'll be getting a statement from Scholastic tomorrow.

Media Matters has more background, and the links to the PDF's.

[LA lady]

1. The materials are already at most schools

http://content.scholastic.com/content/collateral_resources/pdf/a/ABC_pdf_4.pdf#search=%22scholastic%20path%20to%209%2F11%22

I can get to them online too

[Hissyspit]

3. My god, some of that stuff is horrific.

Blatant propaganda.

[Erika]

2. I hit them hard also about revisionist history and W's lies n/t

[mnhtnbb]

4. Have just e-mailed the Principal, Social Studies Chair, and my son's

US History teacher requesting them to respond whether they've received these materials and intend to use them. Sent them William Pitt's facts link, along with media matters link.

http://mediamatters.org/items/200609060005

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/083006J.shtml

[Erika]

5. Way to go!

We all need to stand up like you did.