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ABC 9/11 "Dramatization" The whole truth
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 09:22:11 +0900
Begin forwarded message: From: Sheryl Coe - Reportica <web () reportica net> Date: September 10, 2006 12:54:45 PM JST To: dave () farber net Subject: Re: [IP] ABC 9/11 "Dramatization" Dave,I don't understand why we are debating whether people will understand the difference between a docudrama and a documentary when this **&* ( is portraying itself in black and white text in the center of the screen as the "Official True Story" is beyond me.
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/09/09/abcs-promoting-the-path- to-911-as-the-official-true-story-worldwide/
NARRATOR: The official true story (with text on the screen as well).I don't boycott at the drop of a hat, something really has to disgust me to motivate me to hold a grudge. But Iwon't buy or watch Disney/ ABC again if I can avoid it.
Sheryl On 9/9/06, David Farber <dave () farber net> wrote: Begin forwarded message: From: Diana Cirillo <diana.cirillo () mail com> Date: September 8, 2006 4:57:30 PM PDT To: dave () farber net Subject: RE: [IP] ABC 9/11 "Dramatization" Couldn't agree more that people will take this "docudrama" as truth, and it will be a very bad thing. RE: 43% believe that Saddam had something to do with 9/11. And 50% still believe that Iraq had WMD (see excerpt from AP story below). This is just plain aggressive ignorance. D. Associated Press [.] Despite this, a Harris Poll released July 21 found that a full 50 percent of U.S. respondents - up from 36 percent last year - said they believe Iraq did have the forbidden arms when U.S. troops invaded in March 2003, an attack whose stated purpose was elimination of supposed WMD. Other polls also have found an enduring American faith in the WMD story. "I'm flabbergasted," said Michael Massing, a media critic whose writings dissected the largely unquestioning U.S. news reporting on the Bush administration's shaky WMD claims in 2002-03. "This finding just has to cause despair among those of us who hope for an informed public able to draw reasonable conclusions based on evidence," Massing said. Timing may explain some of the poll result. Two weeks before the survey, two Republican lawmakers, Pennsylvania's Sen. Rick Santorum and Michigan's Rep. Peter Hoekstra, released an intelligence report in Washington saying 500 chemical munitions had been collected in Iraq since the 2003 invasion. "I think the Harris Poll was measuring people's surprise at hearing this after being told for so long there were no WMD in the country," said Hoekstra spokesman Jamal Ware. But the Pentagon and outside experts stressed that these abandoned shells, many found in ones and twos, were 15 years old or more, their chemical contents were degraded, and they were unusable as artillery ordnance. Since the 1990s, such "orphan" munitions, from among 160,000 made by Iraq and destroyed, have turned up on old battlefields and elsewhere in Iraq, ex-inspectors say. In other words, this was no surprise. "These are not stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction," said Scott Ritter, the ex- Marine who was a U.N. inspector in the 1990s. "They weren't deliberately withheld from inspectors by the Iraqis." [.] -----Original Message----- From: David Farber [mailto:dave () farber net] Sent: Friday, September 08, 2006 5:59 PM To: ip () v2 listbox com Subject: [IP] ABC 9/11 "Dramatization" Begin forwarded message: From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren () vortex com> Date: September 8, 2006 2:52:02 PM PDT To: dave () farber net Cc: lauren () vortex com Subject: ABC 9/11 "Dramatization" Dave, I don't much care whether a film or mini-series is seen as biased toward the left, the right, or toward little green outer-space aliens. These kinds of fictionalized "docudramas," which become ingrained in the popular consciousness as if they were documentaries-- complete with false dialogue, "composite" characters, and all the rest -- do an immense disservice to this country.
There is enough confusion among the U.S. population regarding 9/11 as it stands right now. A poll released a few days ago says that 43% of Americans still believe that Saddam Hussein was directly involved in the 9/11 attacks. This despite a continuing array of reports (including a new one just out) that deny this, and President Bush's own recent categorical statement that Hussein was not involved (despite the administration's constant attempts at blurring its Iraq war and the "war on terror"). I do hope that everyone who cares about real facts vs. fictionalized TV trash will keep in mind which organizations, sponsors, and related entities have supported this and similar classes of productions. --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein lauren () vortex com or lauren () pfir org Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 http://www.pfir.org/lauren Co-Founder, PFIR - People For Internet Responsibility - http://www.pfir.org Co-Founder, IOIC - International Open Internet Coalition - http://www.ioic.net Moderator, PRIVACY Forum - http://www.vortex.com Member, ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com DayThink: http://daythink.vortex.com ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as web () reportica net To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ipArchives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting- people/
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