Wednesday, September 13, 2006
More about "The Path to 9/11"
The ADB docu-drama "Path to 9/11", written by Cyrus Nowrasteh and broadcast on September 10 & 11, 2006, created some interesting commentary about the obligations to "tell the truth."
ABC originally billed the drama as an objective re-telling of the story, based on the 9/11 Commission Report -- a "dramatization," it said, with "fictional scenes." Several times during the show itself, ABC ran acautio us disclaimer that the show was indeed a docu-drama, based on a variety of sources, including the 9/11 Commission Report. The network even made a few last-minute re-edits, but not enough to calm the storm.
For example, the Think Progress blog received 522 comments within days of its original message about the docu-drama. On the day before the broadcast, Washington Post film reviewer Tom Shales wrote that the mini-series "falls clumsily into traps that await all those who make fictional films claiming to be factual. Except this time, the event being dramatized is one of the most tragic and monstrous in the nation's history, not something to be trifled with."
ABC originally billed the drama as an objective re-telling of the story, based on the 9/11 Commission Report -- a "dramatization," it said, with "fictional scenes." Several times during the show itself, ABC ran acautio us disclaimer that the show was indeed a docu-drama, based on a variety of sources, including the 9/11 Commission Report. The network even made a few last-minute re-edits, but not enough to calm the storm.
For example, the Think Progress blog received 522 comments within days of its original message about the docu-drama. On the day before the broadcast, Washington Post film reviewer Tom Shales wrote that the mini-series "falls clumsily into traps that await all those who make fictional films claiming to be factual. Except this time, the event being dramatized is one of the most tragic and monstrous in the nation's history, not something to be trifled with."
# posted by Tom Colvin @ 7:09 AM 
