This will be shown to the next generation of voters. It will be what they remember about the Clinton administration.
Hell, all THIS generation remembers is the Lewinsky thing.
"We bombed Iraq in 1998!" "No, we didn't!"
What I don't understand-- and it's not just this, but the whole wider scope of "docudrama" (and the associated big recent "fictional memoir" blowup)-- is how people can look at these things, whether they're factually presented or not, and figure that they're real. In this case, it's a slam-dunk no-brainer-- that's not Bill Clinton playing Bill Clinton, is it? Then how can it possibly be the real deal? At best, it's a recreation that's been filtered through a scriptwriter, a director, a producer, and an editor, and that's four different (and possibly opposing) viewpoints that have the power to shape the events they're portraying. I understand WHY Disney would be saying to schools "here, use this as a teaching tool"-- because it's a great marketing strategy. I don't understand ho teachers can use it as such without even mentioning the fact that this is a recreation and may not-- hell, cannot-- be "the absolute truth."
Shit, I know people who are still convinced that the oxone layer will be gone by 1990, just like MTV told us...
(obviously, I'm agreeing with you here, not arguing. Just venting a bit...)
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Date: 2006-09-07 07:55 pm (UTC)Hell, all THIS generation remembers is the Lewinsky thing.
"We bombed Iraq in 1998!"
"No, we didn't!"
What I don't understand-- and it's not just this, but the whole wider scope of "docudrama" (and the associated big recent "fictional memoir" blowup)-- is how people can look at these things, whether they're factually presented or not, and figure that they're real. In this case, it's a slam-dunk no-brainer-- that's not Bill Clinton playing Bill Clinton, is it? Then how can it possibly be the real deal? At best, it's a recreation that's been filtered through a scriptwriter, a director, a producer, and an editor, and that's four different (and possibly opposing) viewpoints that have the power to shape the events they're portraying. I understand WHY Disney would be saying to schools "here, use this as a teaching tool"-- because it's a great marketing strategy. I don't understand ho teachers can use it as such without even mentioning the fact that this is a recreation and may not-- hell, cannot-- be "the absolute truth."
Shit, I know people who are still convinced that the oxone layer will be gone by 1990, just like MTV told us...
(obviously, I'm agreeing with you here, not arguing. Just venting a bit...)