[MGP-Forum Announce] Brant's post re PBS Newshour on ABC's "The Path to 9/11": A Bad Idea From The Start

[Steven Brant]

Dear Mr. Powell,

Thank you for commenting on the PBS Newshour's analysis of this problem.

Personally, I think the Newshour's guests were more in the "don't  
yell fire in a crowded theater when there's no fire" camp.  Although  
at least one of them referred to how when Michael Moore makes a  
movie, everyone knows it is a movie with a political point of  
view...an axe to grind, so to speak.  So, it's not that they were 100  
percent against movies like this being made.

However, ABC consistently claimed that "The Path to 9/11" had no  
political axe to grind...that it was non-partisan in nature, even if  
some scenes were made up.  This we now know was not the truth.  Even  
if Bob Iger did not order the making of a politically slanted film,  
that is what the film makers made.  And the attempt was then made to  
market this mini-series as "the truth".

We need a free speech to have a society.  But I think the main point  
here (if film makers aren't going to refrain from making 9/11  
docudramas) is "transparency". Let's have people be honest about the  
"speeches" they are making.  Let's have free speech.  But let's also  
have it be honest speech.  I know it's a tall order.  But I think  
it's a standard we should all aim for.

Best regards.

Steve Brant

On Sep 14, 2006, at 2:13 AM, Adam Powell wrote:

> So... the solution to bad speech is less speech? That doesn´t sound  
> like a viable position in a free society
>
> Adam Clayton Powell III
> Director, Integrated Media Systems Center
> USC Viterbi School of Engineering
> 213-740-0877 fax 213-740-8931
> http://imsc.usc.edu/
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Bill Densmore <mediagiraffe at journ.umass.edu>
> Date: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 9:07 pm
> Subject: [MGP-Forum Announce] Brant's post re PBS Newshour on ABC's  
> "The Path to 9/11": A Bad Idea From The Start
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>>
>> MGP2006 participant Steven Brant has written on his Huffington Post
>> blog about the ABC-TV "docu-drama" on "The Path to 9/11." He writes
>> about a PBS Newshour discussion: "In this instance, PBS does what
>> it sometimes does very well - bring on academic experts who analyze
>> an issue (at least in part) in its larger context. The bottom line:
>> these two experts think ABC should have never considered making
>> this movie in the first place.
>>
>> PBS Newshour on "The Path to 9/11": A Bad Idea From The Start
>> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steven-g-brant/pbs-newshour-on-the-
>> path_b_29359.html
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