Letter I wrote to my local station regarding "Path to 911"

[ribrepin]

It is with a great deal of sadness that I write this letter. I have enjoyed my local news from Komo channel 4 for at least 20 years. I have always liked Kathi Goertzen and couldn’t wait for the Schrammie from Ken Schram. Steve Pool was my weatherman.

I have deleted your station from my channel box. I can no longer give my viewership to a station that aired that docudrama “The Path to 911”. I realize that the local station did not produce this program, but I have to do something. The network obviously doesn’t care about my opinion, perhaps the local station will.

Ruth Marcus of the Washington Post writes, “ABC's response to the pre-screening uproar was twofold -- both folds simultaneously inadequate and disingenuous. First, it removed the most flagrantly dishonest scenes: Bill Clinton's national security adviser Sandy Berger slamming down the phone on a fictional CIA operative pleading for permission to attack Osama bin Laden in the spring of 1998; White House counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke suggesting that the Monica Lewinsky scandal and the looming impeachment had sapped the president's willingness to "take chances" on getting the terrorist leader. Yet, these and other misleading insinuations remain, in subtler form.”

I will miss the local news and Grey’s Anatomy, but I can no longer watch a channel that puts on this type of partisan programming on the air. It was a four-hour campaign ad for the Republican Party.

[peace13]

1. Good one!

[ribrepin]

2. Thanks-- I figure it's a waste of time to write the network

But maybe my local affiliate will care.

[peace13]

3. I don't know

You could email it to corp. I called my local station and it was sad to hear the human response. She told me that the 911 commission had authorized the production. I told her she should do a little more research. It made me feel better to have called. At this point I guess that is all we can do...make ourselves feel better. Peace, Kim

[samsingh]

4. good for you.

i've stopped watching abc and will avoid all things disney