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To: SiouxPal who wrote (78672)	9/12/2006 3:09:42 AM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 362347

ABC's Path To A Ratings Belly Flop Via "The Path To 911" themoderatevoice.com <<...You now have to wonder: will some heads roll at ABC and will some mouse ears be boxed at you-know-where? Consider: * Unless there is some huge increase in the second installment, the series flopped not just as a special "television event" a la Roots but as a TV movie. And it didn't even have any commercials. * The series showed that you can't market a TV program by going after one political party and seemingly praising another in an increasingly polarized nation...and do it in a hotly-contested election year...without losing part of your audience in the short term. * The ratings suggest that there is a real danger ABC and Disney will have lost some long-term customers as well — particularly because it's clear neither Bill Clinton's attorneys or America Airlines are just going to shrug and say: "Oh well, that's show biz!" * The question becomes: where was the oversight at both the network and its parent company in allowing a producer to grind his political axes so loudly that it overshadowed the rest of the project, whipped up an angry hornet's nest of opposition, provided some lawyers chances to increase their billable hours and caused some viewers not to watch because they felt the movie was little more than a political hit piece? * How (if at all) do ABC and Disney repair their respective corporate images since they are now viewed by Democrats and also by many independents as producing a film at variance with what the 911 Commission actually said and containing some scenes depicting events that didn't happen — and the most damaging of those scenes were negative to Democrats and not Republicans in an election year?...>>