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"Angry Young Man!" |
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10 Sep 2006 10:27:21 AM |
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ABC follows a path to shame |
ABC follows a path to shame
By Tim Rutten
Surveying the smoking ruin that is ABC's reputation after the "The Path to
9/11" debacle, it's hard to know whether you're looking at the consequence
of unadulterated folly or of a calculated strategy that turned out to be too
clever by half.
At the end of the day, it probably doesn't make much difference because,
either way, the lacerating controversy surrounding the network's
docu-dramatic re-creation of events leading to Sept. 11 is an entirely
self-inflicted wound. For most of the week, ABC rather haughtily attempted
to characterize itself as the victim of philistines, or self-righteously as
a champion of free speech or, more pathetically, as just plain misunderstood
by people who just don't understand how television is done.
It is none of those things.
It's an opportunistic and self-interested organization that somehow thought
it could approach the most wrenching American tragedy since Pearl Harbor
with the values that prevail among network television executives - the sort
of ad hoc ethics that would make a streetwalker blush - and that nobody
would mind.
But did the people who run ABC Entertainment - the network division directly
responsible for this mess - really believe that Bill Clinton, Madeleine
Albright and Sandy Berger would watch themselves on television doing and
saying thing they never did or said and not object?
When these fictional incidents were portrayed as contributing to the deaths
of nearly 3,000 innocent people, did they think that the former Clinton
administration officials and others so caricatured simply would shrug and
say, "Well, that's dramatic license for you?" Did they really expect anyone
to accept the preposterous notion that - as some at the network argued this
week - the film's facts were wrong, but its "essence" was true? These people
really need to get out more.
The Communications Act of 1934 provides your network with a free broadcast
license predicated on the fundamental understanding of your principle
obligation to act as a trustee of the public airwaves in serving the public
interest ...
The movie's ludicrous inaccuracies are enough to have ABC's license revoked.
Maybe the Democrats should have a movie of the planes smashing into the WTC
and then pan to a barn in Texas where Bush is getting a ***** from Condi
Rice.
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