Houston Chron Editorial: 'Path To 9/11' "Fabricating History"

[Hissyspit]

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/editorial/4171409.html

Sept. 7, 2006, 9:10PM

Fabricating history
ABC docudrama on 9/11 jettisons accuracy in favor of fictional sensationalism

"With national security and the war on terror again in the spotlight as the midterm congressional elections near, intense political scrutiny is focused on the ABC miniseries The Path to 9/11, set to air Monday on the event's fifth anniversary.

Democrats and some experts on terrorism say a key scene in which members of President Bill Clinton's administration refuse to approve a CIA recommendation to kill or capture al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden never happened. The show's narrative, according to a review by Editor and Publisher, presents the Bush administration largely in a positive light.

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Nowrasteh has a talent for writing fiction, including the pilot episode of the popular spy series La Femme Nikita, and a little-seen movie, Norma Jean, Jack and Me, in which a shipwrecked man washes up on an Caribbean island and discovers President Jack Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe alive and living out their golden years.

It's unfortunate that ABC would trust the depiction of a still painful and politically volatile subject such as 9/11 to a writer best known for fantastical storytelling. The least ABC officials can do is remove segments found to be fictitious before distributing the movie to impressionable schoolchildren and a national audience."

[RedEarth]

1. It damn sure is.........ABC needs to pull it

[kurth]

2. Who's bankrolling this $40M extravaganza?

This question needs to be answered.

[babylonsister]

3. Glad you asked! Evangelical Film Institute Behind "Road to 9/11"

Evangelical Film Institute Behind "Road to 9/11"

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Evangelical Film Institute Behind "Road to 9/11"

http://www.markandkrista.com/4559.html

So that's what we've decided to do. Starting in July, along with our 'normal' discipleship efforts in YWAM, we will officially join The Film Institute - a new auxiliary branch of Youth With A Mission focused on tranforming film and television from the inside out. TFI's first project is a doozy: simply being referred to as: The Untitled History Project, it is already being called the television event of the decade and not one second has been put to film yet. Talk about great expectations!

Our goal is to help filmmakers, actors, technicians, etc. realize their God given potential and purpose in perhaps the most influential sphere of modern culture - film and television.

http://www.markandkrista.com/30257.html

Our next big project is to assist in the development of the new YWAM auxiliary - The Film Institute (TFI). The Film Institute is dedicated to a Godly transformation and
revolution TO and THROUGH the Film and Television industry;

TO it, by serving, living humbly with integrity in what is often a world driven by selfish ambition, power an money - transforming lives from within,

and THROUGH it, by creating relevant and evocative content which promotes Godly principles of Truth married with Love.

[Ilsa]

4. Funding By Fundies. Great. Just effin great. eom

[warrens]

5. The pilot to The Femme Nikita...

Was just a cleaned up version of the movie. But the writer here has a valid point; this guy has zero background in documentaries and journalistic ethics. Which would seem to me to be the base for a movie of this importance. ABC really fucked up, and they have no way to weasel out now except to cut the scenes, which of course will gut their little movie.

Heads will roll over this. It's now not just a money loser, but a major black eye for the entire network.

[kurth]

6. Rush Limbaugh refers to Nowrasteh as "a friend of mine"

That's enough credential for ABC.