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On Sep 14, 2006, at 2:30 AM, Steven Brant wrote:

> 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/
>>
>> ----- 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
>> To: post at mgp-forum.org
>>
>>>
>>> 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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> Steven G. Brant, Business Futurist
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