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To: illyia who wrote (78490)	9/10/2006 12:44:19 PM
From: Ron	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 362775

That's great news about Moyers doing more documentaries. What worries me is.. I don't see any younger generation Moyers coming along... We need some. His tribe needs to prosper..

To: illyia who wrote (78490)	9/10/2006 11:17:10 PM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 362775

ABC's `Path' of stiff resistance _____________________________________________________________ DEMOS, HISTORIANS SLAM `FALSIFICATION,' WANT FILM YANKED By David Bauder Associated Press Sep. 09, 2006 NEW YORK - ABC faced growing pressure Friday about its planned miniseries on the buildup to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Former Clinton administration officials, historians and a Democratic petition with nearly 200,000 signatures urged the network to scrap the five-hour drama. The network said the movie, scheduled to air commercial-free Sunday and Monday, is being edited to deal with concerns that it distorts history. ABC had no response to the calls to abandon it. In another complication, President Bush has asked broadcast networks to clear time for an address to the nation Monday night at 9:01 p.m. EDT, just at the start of the last hour of ``The Path to 9/11'' on the East Coast. ABC announced plans Friday night to cover what is expected to be a 20-minute speech before resuming the film. On the West Coast, the speech is set to air at 6:01 p.m., and the film is expected to air uninterrupted at 8 p.m. Friday, a group of historians, including Arthur Schlesinger Jr. and Princeton University's Sean Wilentz, wrote to Robert Iger, CEO of ABC parent Walt Disney Co., urging him to scrap the series. They said that permitting inaccuracies to heighten drama is ``disingenuous and dangerous.'' ``A responsible broadcast network should have nothing to do with the falsification of history, except to expose it,'' they wrote. The Democratic National Committee said it delivered a petition with nearly 200,000 signatures to ABC's Washington office urging the network drop its ``right-wing factually inaccurate mocudrama.'' Clinton's national security adviser, Samuel ``Sandy'' Berger, and former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, whose depictions in the film as helping embolden Osama bin Laden are at the center of the controversy, asked Thomas Kean, the Republican former governor of New Jersey who led the commission looking into the attacks, to use his influence with filmmakers to pull it. ``You can't fix it,'' Berger said on CNN. ``You've got to yank it.'' The controversy is reminiscent of the one that erupted over a 2003 CBS miniseries about former President Reagan. In the face of political pressure over that film's accuracy, CBS canceled it. The miniseries later aired on the Showtime cable network. The Sept. 11 film's executive producer, Marc Platt, responded that many of the film's most vocal critics haven't yet seen it. ``I'm not sure that what they think is there, is there,'' he said Friday. Platt called the growing uproar ``a distraction in some ways from the bigger intentions, which is a shame. And that's quite frankly what the whole 9/11 story is about.'' Stressing that the miniseries is a docudrama, Platt said ``elements and issues that are outside the boundaries of what we believe to be fair and reasonable will be addressed'' until airtime. ``I hope people will watch the film and draw their own conclusions.'' In a statement Thursday, ABC said editing for the $40 million film was ongoing. Former President Clinton, speaking with news reporters after a fundraiser in Arkansas on Thursday, said he hadn't seen the ABC film. ``But I think they ought to tell the truth, particularly if they are going to claim it is based on the 9/11 commission report,'' he said. ``They shouldn't have scenes that are directly contradicted by the findings of the 9/11 report.'' Harvey Keitel, one of the actors in ``The Path to 9/11,'' also said he had questions about whether some of the material was accurate. ``When I received the script, it said `ABC history project,' '' Keitel said in an interview with CNN Headline News' ``Showbiz Tonight.'' ``I took it to be exactly what they presented to me, history. And that the facts were correct. It turned out not all the facts were correct, and ABC set out trying to heal that problem. In some instances it was too late, because we had begun.''