Scoop New Zealand: "Path To 9/11" Docu-Drama On TV1 Is Propaganda

[althecat]

Hopefully by the time this gets shown some people in NZ will know what they are being served....

"Path To 9/11" Docu-Drama On TV1 Tonight Is Propaganda

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0609/S00123.htm
Link Compilation / Data Dump


A modified poster for the tele-movie scheduled for world wide release starting tonight in New Zealand.
Image Source URL

INTRODUCTION: NZ's state broadcaster Television One is tonight and tomorrow screening an ABC Television docu-drama series called "Path to 9/11". The docu-drama series - starring Harvey Keitel and being released simultaneously around the globe - is currently under attack in the United States because it contains historically inaccurate information but claims to be based on the official "9/11 Commission Report".

Research in recent days in the liberal blogosphere shows it was produced – seemingly in secret – by a shadowy organization connected to the Christian Right. According to those who have seen advance copies of the docu-drama it seeks to attribute blame for the events of 9/11 to failures in counter terrorism under the watch of former Democratic Party president Bill Clinton.

In recent days leading Democrats (including Al Gore, Bill Clinton and John Kerry) and senior US historians have called for the docu-drama to be yanked and a concerted effort to put commercial pressure on Disney and ABC to get the series pulled is also underway. A similar advertising boycott campaign run by Republicans was attributed with getting a miniseries critical of the Reagans pulled last year.

Leading educational provider Scholastic has even circulated a note to School teachers encouraging them to use the show to point out the ways in which propaganda sometimes distorts history for political ends (the full note to social studies teachers is included below).

The following material was all found on the liberal US political forum website DemocraticUnderground.Com where the story has been running hot for several days. Click on the headlines below for more source material and discussion.

For further background see also... William Rivers Pitt: Clinton, 9/11 and the Facts.

- Alastair Thompson - Scoop Co-Editor

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0609/S00123.htm

[kurth]

1. Good write-up. Thanks!

[TAPat]

2. Alright!

:woohoo:

[Vinnie From Indy]

3. Way to go Will Pitt!

Your hard work is getting noticed across the globe! Hat's off to DU as well!

[Mnemosyne]

4. Notice the coward is hiding behind the flag, typical. n/t

[Felinity]

5. The Pitt article is a must read K&R

I'd like to see a list of what Bush did from 1/1/01 to 9/11/01 at about 8:15 am. Oh, heck I'll make one for you.

1. Deep six anything the Clinton administration started, or recommended (must be NOT LIKE CLINTON)

2. Clear brush.

3. Photo op.

4. Photo op.

5. Clear brush.

6. Photo op.

7. Photo op with literary circle--damn-it, now I'll never know how that story ends-that goat sure is cute!

[twenty4blackbirds]

6. Farenheight 9/11 aired the previous night, same channel

[BeHereNow]

7. THANK YOU for posting this link!!!

We are studying propaganda in the high school class
I work in...
Guess I 'll have to print and pass this article out, eh?
As in, on MONDAY morning, September 11, 2006
BHN

[althecat]

9. cool

[althecat]

8. Update: TVNZ backpeddling this morning

Here is the promo page for tonights broadcast.

http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/826200

Part 1 - TV One, Sunday 10th at 7:30
Part 2 - TV One, Monday 11th at 7:30

This epic 6-hour miniseries screened in 2 parts, is a dramatisation of the events published in the national bestseller 'The 9/11 Commission Report'.

Starring Harvey Keitel, Donnie Wahlberg, Patricia Heaton, Amy Madigan, Dan Lauria, Stephen Root, and Penny Johnson Jerald, among many others, the actors portray the famous, infamous and, in many cases, formerly anonymous and often heroic individuals thrust by events on to history's stage.

Beginning with the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center and ending with the morning of 9/11, the miniseries takes viewers on an unforgettable journey through the events that presaged that fateful day.

The Path to 9/11 was highly recommended by David McPhail, reporting for the Sunday Star Times on September 3rd. He said "...record The Path to 9/11 on TV One and keep it. Forever."

Meanwhile.. TVNZ has made public statements to Radio New Zealand saying that the docu-drama will be accompanied by a disclaimer saying that it is a dramatisation.

Auckland law lecturers urge TVNZ to pull 9/11 programme
Posted at 10:07am on 10 Sep 2006
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/latest/200609101007/auckland_law_lecturers_urge_tvnz_to_pull_911_programme

TVNZ plans no changes to controversial mini-series
Posted at 12:08pm on 10 Sep 2006
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/latest/200609101208/tvnz_plans_no_changes_to_controversial_mini-series

[EFerrari]

10. I love you guys. Thank you.

:loveya: