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Sep. 7th, 2006 03:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
novapsycheDespite Clinton having his lawyers send a letter to Disney/ABC urging them to correct their miniseries about 9/11 or not air it, they refuse to take either action. Note also that the miniseries is being aired "without commercial interruption," so there is no way to make any leverage on advertisers to pull their funding.
The only way to protest the airing is to contact your local ABC affiliate as well as ABC directly (their Audience Relations line is 818-460-7477), and also to contact Disney. (There is a petition aimed at Disney's CEO, Robert Iger.)
I called WXYZ here in Detroit and expressed my hope that they would not air it unless it was corrected. (If you're local and would like the number to their programming department, it is 248-827-9302.) I asked the lady who took my call if they had received other calls about it, and apparently they have, but she couldn't tell me how heavy the response has been.
Also note that Disney is pairing with Scholastic (of all companies!) to distribute the miniseries to schools as "teaching tools." This is a miniseries that purports to be based on the report issued by the 9/11 commission, yet ABC admits that it inserts completely fictionalized portions, scenes and segments that give it a very slanted, very biased view that portrays the Clinton administration as "dropping the ball" on terrorism. This will be shown to the next generation of voters. It will be what they remember about the Clinton administration.
The only way to protest the airing is to contact your local ABC affiliate as well as ABC directly (their Audience Relations line is 818-460-7477), and also to contact Disney. (There is a petition aimed at Disney's CEO, Robert Iger.)
I called WXYZ here in Detroit and expressed my hope that they would not air it unless it was corrected. (If you're local and would like the number to their programming department, it is 248-827-9302.) I asked the lady who took my call if they had received other calls about it, and apparently they have, but she couldn't tell me how heavy the response has been.
Also note that Disney is pairing with Scholastic (of all companies!) to distribute the miniseries to schools as "teaching tools." This is a miniseries that purports to be based on the report issued by the 9/11 commission, yet ABC admits that it inserts completely fictionalized portions, scenes and segments that give it a very slanted, very biased view that portrays the Clinton administration as "dropping the ball" on terrorism. This will be shown to the next generation of voters. It will be what they remember about the Clinton administration.