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To: TimF who wrote (28569)	9/12/2006 5:33:42 PM
From: JohnM	of 541778

Pulling out of involvement with a controversial mini-series isn't endorsement of the view that the mini-series is a pack of lies. Definitely not. You're right. But this is one more of those moments that are not binary. Scholastics still plans to do study guides without endorsing the program. The study guides were going to be about the meaning of 9-11; now the study guides will be about how to read the media. Critically. It means, as I said, that the 9-11 movie lacks the legitimacy that Scholastics could have provided to get them into the public school system. Without it, the schools which show it will be in one of several categories: (1) as an exercise in critical interpretations of the media (most likely, the bulk of them); (2) schools with ideological commitments to bashing Clinton, et al which will be simply preaching to the choir; and (3) the uninformed. In each of the last two cases, the sponsors of showing it will have no answer to the complaint they are showing a "controversial" TV documentary. And, as Jon Stewart remarked, something on the order of, who believes TV documentaries anyway. Some funny lines which I can't recall the punch lines for. But that's always my problem.

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