NYT: ABC Tinkers with 9 / 11 TV Drama Assailed by Clinton

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/arts/entertainment-sept11-abc.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

Under pressure from former President Bill Clinton and the Democratic Party, ABC scrambled on Friday to make 11th-hour changes to a miniseries suggesting he was inattentive to the Islamic militant threat that led to the September 11 attacks.

Officials at the Walt Disney Co.-owned network said they were still tinkering with the five-hour production, titled ``The Path to 9/11,'' which is scheduled to air without commercial interruption in two parts on Sunday and Monday.

But ABC declined to say how the movie was being reshaped or whether any changes would address specific complaints lodged by Clinton, his former aides and congressional Democrats that the film contained numerous inaccuracies and distortions.

The Hollywood trade paper Daily Variety, citing sources close to the project, reported the network was considering canceling the miniseries altogether.

And for Bush Speech get this! Like a f'cking commercial for GOP!

The network said it would air the first hour of the film, break for 20 minutes to carry Bush's speech live, then broadcast the rest of the movie.Reuters/VNU

[AX10]

1. Unless ABC pulls this POS, I will BOYCOTT DISNEY/ABC properties!

"Editing" is not good enough.

[Erika]

9. They better dump it

Or I hope they are sued to the point they disappear.

[StrictlyRockers]

2. Obscene! NO commercials for a five-hour show...except one for *??!

One twenty minute commerical for fuckhead to spew his drivelling propaganda. Fuck this shit, man!

[Erika]

11. ABC has lost it

Their effort to revise history to right wing propoganda will doom them.

[LuckyTheDog]

3. Pull it, put it on cable

Put it on DVD and sell it. Post it on the Internet. But a movie clearly packed with lies should not be on the public airwaves.

[StrictlyRockers]

4. It is the kind of thing that should get your broadcasting licence pulled.

It is right-wing propaganda. It has NO place on the public airwaves.

[w4rma]

5. Omg, that's what they are going to use their unsold commercial time on.

A Bush speech. :wow: Smack dab, 1 hour, in the middle of the 2nd half of the show.

[RamboLiberal]

7. Well Rove sure F'ing saw his opportunity and planned this one!

From Raw:

Saturday's edition of the New York Times will carry an article slated for the front page which examines President Bush's "reset the clock" strategy.

"When President Bush and his top aides gathered in July to plot out a strategy for the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, it was clear to all that they had to try to reset the clock -- back to a time, before Iraq, when portraying himself as a steely commander in chief was a far simpler task for Bush, before Katrina, when questions about competence did not weigh so heavily," write David E. Sanger and Sheryl Gay Stolberg.

"From those discussions emerged the speeches of the last week in which Bush has attempted to regain ground he has lost for more than two years, turn the conversation away from Iraq," the article continues.

"It is a carefully-honed strategy that will accelerate all weekend," report Sanger and Stolberg.

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/NYT_President_Bushs_reset_clock_strategy_0908.html

[Bozita]

6. That's an "inkind" political donation of over $40 MILLION

The cost of production and marketing plus the missing ad money.

Are they gonna report it?

[ladym55]

8. Notice how the Clinton and the Democrats did it

I was rather unhappy with the tone of the Times article. I was also not very happy with the review in the Times.

In 2001 President Bush and his newly appointed aides had ample warning, including a briefing paper titled “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.,” and they failed to take it seriously enough, but their missteps are not equal. It’s like focusing blame for a school shooting at the beginning of the school year on the student’s new home room teacher; the adults who watched the boy torment classmates and poison small animals knew better.

So I guess what ABC did was okay ...

[Erika]

10. Condi admits she had a memo about airplane hits

and did nothing about it.