ABC gets a D
Guest post by Capt. Fogg
I've watched about all I can watch of The Path to 9/11. I had been wondering when the purpose behind it would become more obvious than it was on Sunday, and when it was interrupted for a pep talk by the worst president in our history, the wondering stopped.
ABC spent $40,000,000 on this clumsy piece of propaganda and has aired it without apparent commercial sponsorship. Big corporations don't usually give away hours of air time for free. There's a quo for this quid and the network that will not give equal time to someone to counter its opinions will give free time to the Republican National Committee to sell the President's failures as successes. It's free political advertising, and if it isn't illegal we might just as well forget about any notions of a free press.
Yesterday's episode continued to pretend that the reason we were hit by Osama was political correctness and the Bill of Rights, and although it did make reference to Bush's canceling all discussions of terrorism, ABC has allowed Bush to play muezzin, chanting his 9/11 Saddam -- 9/11 Saddam -- 911 Saddam -- 9/11 Saddam call to deception from the minarets of TV broadcasting towers all over the country. Although the "Docudrama" may criticize his administration, it nonetheless praises with faint damnation.
That's what it's all about and that's why they don't bother to get the most elementary facts straight and why they do bother to put fictional conversations and circumstances in front of us. That's why Disney and its running dogs at ABC gave a 40 million dollar gift to George Bush.
As a post at State of the Day put it today (cross-posted here at The Reaction): "I am so sick and tired of the mixed messages meant to confuse. It's not the war on terror that has a nation divided, it's the f**king war in Iraq. Define your war, Mr. President. Define your intentions. Tell the American people how you used one as an excuse for the other and how that was the only connection that ever existed between the two."
I'm not holding my breath.
I've watched about all I can watch of The Path to 9/11. I had been wondering when the purpose behind it would become more obvious than it was on Sunday, and when it was interrupted for a pep talk by the worst president in our history, the wondering stopped.
ABC spent $40,000,000 on this clumsy piece of propaganda and has aired it without apparent commercial sponsorship. Big corporations don't usually give away hours of air time for free. There's a quo for this quid and the network that will not give equal time to someone to counter its opinions will give free time to the Republican National Committee to sell the President's failures as successes. It's free political advertising, and if it isn't illegal we might just as well forget about any notions of a free press.
Yesterday's episode continued to pretend that the reason we were hit by Osama was political correctness and the Bill of Rights, and although it did make reference to Bush's canceling all discussions of terrorism, ABC has allowed Bush to play muezzin, chanting his 9/11 Saddam -- 9/11 Saddam -- 911 Saddam -- 9/11 Saddam call to deception from the minarets of TV broadcasting towers all over the country. Although the "Docudrama" may criticize his administration, it nonetheless praises with faint damnation.
That's what it's all about and that's why they don't bother to get the most elementary facts straight and why they do bother to put fictional conversations and circumstances in front of us. That's why Disney and its running dogs at ABC gave a 40 million dollar gift to George Bush.
As a post at State of the Day put it today (cross-posted here at The Reaction): "I am so sick and tired of the mixed messages meant to confuse. It's not the war on terror that has a nation divided, it's the f**king war in Iraq. Define your war, Mr. President. Define your intentions. Tell the American people how you used one as an excuse for the other and how that was the only connection that ever existed between the two."
I'm not holding my breath.
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