Open Letter to ABC: Don't Airbrush 9/11, Don't Play Politics with a National Tragedy
U.S. Newswire, September, 2006
WASHINGTON, Sept. 7 /U.S. Newswire/ -- ABC/Disney is planning to broadcast a $30 million mini-series called "The Path to 9/11" on September 10th and 11th, without commercials and under the imprimatur, "based on the 9/11 Commission," despite the fact that the "docudrama" directly contradicts the bi-partisan report on which it claims to be based.
The program is being promoted by only the Republican co-chair of the 9/11 Commission, Thomas Kean, who is a paid consultant on the project, while no Commission Democrats were consulted on, or vetted the film. Kean calls the project "reasonably accurate," but admits that scenes have been fictionalized, and that composite characters were written into the storyline. Critics proved this week that several scenes are not at all based in...
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