Most of the country clearly WASN'T watching PT9/11 ---

[Radio_Lady]

http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,19981,00.html
Viewers Tune Out "Path to 9/11"

by Josh Grossberg
Sep 11, 2006, 3:30 PM PT

The Path to 9/11 was crushed by NBC's season premiere of Sunday Night Football, which pitted Peyton Manning and his Indianapolis Colts against brother Eli and his New York Giants. The football game drew an estimated 20.7 million viewers to 13 million for The Path to 9/11, per Nielsen Media Research. ABC did get a small measure of consolation by beating CBS' 9/11 documentary, which attracted 10.6 million in its third airing.

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ABC went ahead Sunday with its slightly tweaked but still controversial miniseries, The Path to 9/11. And while former Clinton administration officials still seethed at, what former counterterrorism czar and current ABC News consultant Richard Clarke called "an egregious distortion," many of them joined the rest of the country and simply didn't watch.

A week's worth of complaints from the Clintonites and others didn't convince ABC to pull the five-hour, commerical-free $40 million docudrama. Instead, the network recut the movie, deemphasized its reliance on the 9/11 Commission Report as primary source material and urged naysayers to watch the finished product before making any judgments.

"Having now seen the first night of this fiction, it is clear that the edits made to the film did not address the factual errors that we brought to your attention," Bruce Lindsey, the former President's personal attorney and head of the Clinton Foundation, wrote in an open letter to Disney chief Robert Iger.

"The final product was fraught with error and contained contrived scenes that are directly contradicted by the findings of the 9/11 Commission Report. The film has undoubtedly cemented in millions of viewers' minds a false impression of critical historical events."

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[RevCheesehead]

1. And tonight, we watched Keith!!

:woohoo:

[Radio_Lady]

3. I watched Keith, and then a re-run of "South Pacific" on Oregon Public

Broadcasting. The singing was magnificent, with Reba McIntyre and Alec Baldwin --

I refuse to get involved with the All Bush Controversy. I'm sick to death of him and his cabal.

Good night and good luck.

[populistdriven]

2. Please help bury this film in the trash by voting on IMDB

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2113964

[Radio_Lady]

5. It's important to vote and then more important to post a comment.

Tonight, most of the comments seem to be from right wingers.

Thanks.

[jean]

4. Lots of us have mentioned watching it - factor that into the mix.

[tuvor]

6. Viewership would've been 50% less if DUers weren't watching.