Wild Kingdom
Aired 9/15/06 Wild Kingdom 
So much was written about ABC's The Path to 9/11 that it was challenging to think of a unique thing to say. So much had been written about the scenes that never happened, the agenda of the filmmakers, of how ABC 'caved in' to pressure, and comparisons to The Reagans (which CBS pulled and sent to cable-only obscurity).
Perhaps because I regard myself as a journalist I realized that once you give yourself license to mess with the facts you start to do it for the most trivial of reasons. For example the show had Mohammed Atta being flagged at an American Airlines check in counter in Logan Airport rather than a USAir counter in Maine as happened. Why mess with such a fact that had nothing to do with the point the filmmakers were trying to make? I suspect that it was because Logan's terminal is more photogenic, nothing more. That's where you wind up when facts are secondary.
Then I heard ABC's disclaimer and thought of another disclaimer that was heard for years every week on TV and how the two were very different.
Tags: 9-11, media, Bias, islam, politics, podcast
So much was written about ABC's The Path to 9/11 that it was challenging to think of a unique thing to say. So much had been written about the scenes that never happened, the agenda of the filmmakers, of how ABC 'caved in' to pressure, and comparisons to The Reagans (which CBS pulled and sent to cable-only obscurity).
Perhaps because I regard myself as a journalist I realized that once you give yourself license to mess with the facts you start to do it for the most trivial of reasons. For example the show had Mohammed Atta being flagged at an American Airlines check in counter in Logan Airport rather than a USAir counter in Maine as happened. Why mess with such a fact that had nothing to do with the point the filmmakers were trying to make? I suspect that it was because Logan's terminal is more photogenic, nothing more. That's where you wind up when facts are secondary.
Then I heard ABC's disclaimer and thought of another disclaimer that was heard for years every week on TV and how the two were very different.
Tags: 9-11, media, Bias, islam, politics, podcast
posted by Daniel Raymond at 9:50 PM
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