**New** Act For Change Action #2 re: ABC Lie-Fest

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http://act.actforchange.com/cgi-bin7/DM/y/eplK0I5AjF0A0BMku0Ej

ABC: Cancel Biased 9/11 "Docu-drama"

Contributed by Working Assets

Since publishing our original action alert regarding ABC's inaccurate and biased "docu-drama" to be broadcast on Sept. 11th, we've learned even more disturbing details about the show - which is scheduled to occupy six hours of prime time television, less that two months before an important national election.

* The film - written by an avowed conservative activist - was provided in advance to approximately 900 right-wing bloggers and media personalities such as Rush Limbaugh. However, former President Bill Clinton and two of his cabinet officials were denied when they requested preview copies of the film. Former Secretary of State Madeline Albright has called the film - which includes several scenes with no basis in reality -- "false and defamatory."

* In response to mounting pressure, the film's producers are making some small changes...but according to conservative blogger Hugh Hewitt, "blame on the Clinton team is in the DNA of the project and could not be eradicated."

* ABC has teamed up with Scholastic Inc., a company that sells textbooks, to send letters to 100,000 teachers across the country offering free copies of the film and "study guides," despite the fact that the film is a "docu-drama" in which important facts and events have simply been invented out of thin air.

From these latest developments, it's become clear that this film was intended from the start to convince unknowing viewers that a false and conservative view of history is in fact the truth; lay blame at Bill Clinton's feet (while completely omitting mention of the dozens of antiterrorism measures he tried to enact); and propagandize America's schoolchildren with fiction masquerading as fact. It's simply unacceptable.


Call to action:
Tell ABC, Disney and Scholastic executives that fictionalized, "blame-Clinton-first" accounts of Sept. 11th have no place on our public airwaves OR in our public schools.

Deadline:
9/10/2006

Additional Information:
We urge you to personalize the letter and express your views on this topic in your own words.

If you would like to also contact your local ABC affiliate and request that they cancel the show, a listing of those affiliates is here.


On edit: Typo. Though not mine, for once. ;)

[Donnachaidh]

1. Scholastic pulled out of the deal yesterday

After they were blasted with emails.

[nicknameless]

2. Sending the email is still a good idea.

This definitely isn't over.

And since a lot of the garbage from Scholastic has already gone out, I wouldn't put it past the redder states to use the crap.

[GOTV]

4. No they didn't. Why do people keep saying this?

They are just updating their study guides to add a question about media literacy and doing it too late for it to make any difference.

[asjr]

3. The timing and airing of this "movie" is

so blatantly political it almost borders on treason. If it is not political, why would ABC want to air lies? I feel abused just by seeing the excerpts from the film on television. Our country has lost so much in the last 6 years and two things stand out that we have lost--truth and honor. For those who can't or won't realize we are now a dictatorship I feel pity. And anger! I keep hoping our knight in shining armor will come along and rescue us from the dragon which has invaded out country, but I am afraid by the time he or she arrives the armor will be so rusty it won't repel any neo-con. I hope also that the network has lawsuits coming out its ears.

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5. Kick for change