Crock-umentary
Can you believe that ABC is going to run a partisan lie of a "docu-drama" on the events leading up to 911 on Sunday - an exploitation to get ratings and to raise a certain political agenda? I'm stunned. They allude that this is based on the 911 report, but it contains dialogue and scenes that directly contradict the findings of the 911 commission. I'm hoping that this will force anyone who still believes the myth of the "liberal media" to reconsider.
If you're as bothered by this as I am, please let ABC know it.
No matter what end of the political spectrum you sit at (and it's pretty obvious where I am...) I think we can all agree that misinformation and fabrication masquerading as "facts" is a bad idea - especially relating to such a heart wrenching topic as the 9/11 attacks.
And while you're at it, let Scholastic know that you appreciate them reconsidering their decision to hand out copies of this program as "educational material" along with a programming guide for school teachers. Oy. THAT was even more troubling, but not covered as much in the media.
As someone who lived 18 miles from the Towers, and lost friends in the disaster, I wish there were a moratorium on anything but serious, well researched DOCUMENTARIES on this event for at least 10 years after 9/11/01.
House?
We continue cleaning, painting, cleaning, scrubbing, throwing away, cleaning, and doing a little washing up. Have I mentioned lately that my family's Dutch? Gerry repainted the basement playroom / office and then, on the advice of our real estate agent, he painted the stairwel leading down to the basement. Since I'm taller and have a steadier hand, I did the trim and finished up the job while he started the daunting task of removing the big, foggy, sliding glass doors from the back porch.
It's only been here 2 days and the dumpster is getting filled up! Amazing, huh? I am very proud of the cleanup job we all did in the garage yesterday, Hannah swept it and mopped it, and Maxie washed the bikes and took down the hammmock. It's very good to get the kids involved in the whole thing, too (and having pizza for dinner for the groundbreaking 2nd day in the same week) didn't hurt, either!
Gerry is working so hard that at one point he fell out of hte porch window (riding the window down as he jimmied it out of the frame) and leapt over it to avoid breaking it. I ran out to see him sitting on the back lawn with his hand over his heart (he thinks he pulled a muscle or bruised a rib). That was very scary, and I'm doing my best to get him to be sensible about all of this cleaning up!
If you're as bothered by this as I am, please let ABC know it.
No matter what end of the political spectrum you sit at (and it's pretty obvious where I am...) I think we can all agree that misinformation and fabrication masquerading as "facts" is a bad idea - especially relating to such a heart wrenching topic as the 9/11 attacks.
And while you're at it, let Scholastic know that you appreciate them reconsidering their decision to hand out copies of this program as "educational material" along with a programming guide for school teachers. Oy. THAT was even more troubling, but not covered as much in the media.
As someone who lived 18 miles from the Towers, and lost friends in the disaster, I wish there were a moratorium on anything but serious, well researched DOCUMENTARIES on this event for at least 10 years after 9/11/01.
House?
We continue cleaning, painting, cleaning, scrubbing, throwing away, cleaning, and doing a little washing up. Have I mentioned lately that my family's Dutch? Gerry repainted the basement playroom / office and then, on the advice of our real estate agent, he painted the stairwel leading down to the basement. Since I'm taller and have a steadier hand, I did the trim and finished up the job while he started the daunting task of removing the big, foggy, sliding glass doors from the back porch.
It's only been here 2 days and the dumpster is getting filled up! Amazing, huh? I am very proud of the cleanup job we all did in the garage yesterday, Hannah swept it and mopped it, and Maxie washed the bikes and took down the hammmock. It's very good to get the kids involved in the whole thing, too (and having pizza for dinner for the groundbreaking 2nd day in the same week) didn't hurt, either!Gerry is working so hard that at one point he fell out of hte porch window (riding the window down as he jimmied it out of the frame) and leapt over it to avoid breaking it. I ran out to see him sitting on the back lawn with his hand over his heart (he thinks he pulled a muscle or bruised a rib). That was very scary, and I'm doing my best to get him to be sensible about all of this cleaning up!
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I watched a documentary on Sept 11, 2001 on Biography the other evening. For the most part, I found it fine -- until they talked about the US waging war on Afghanistan: "Bin Laden and the Taliban were not prepared for the strength of the US military". Please...bombing civilians in the mountains?
I cannot believe it is almost 5 years? The pain has barely been diminshed.
I'd like to say that I love you. I am also on the opposite side of the fence politically to you. I would also like to say that I am hugely upset but these movies that are being made about 9/11. I was terribly annoyed that a television station would start out by saying that this "documentary" is based on fact and when they are called on it they say it's a "movie". i will not be watching - as I haven't watched any money making projects about 9/11.
Great job on the house. Maybe i should get a dumpster.
Ooohohohoh! I didn't know you were another "can't shut up about politics on my knitting blog" person! :-)
Apparently they are doing some last minute editing because they are getting so many complaints. I saw a link on google news this morning but forgot where the story actually was, maybe NY Times?
I think they should just cancel the stupid show. I agree with you. I don't live in NY any more, but my father saw the whole thing from his boat an my husband's grandparents lived just across the river in Brooklyn, so it does hit close to home. I think that these movies and fictional treatments are entirely tasteless at this time.
That said, I do not think 9-11 changed everything. Or rather it should NOT have changed everything. It makes me sick how this country reacted. We claim to be so brave and everything, and we are still whining and hiding like a bunch of freaking babies. I mean people in the Middle East and Ireland have had to deal with terrorist attacks for years and years, and they are not as whiney as we are, after just 2 foreign terrorist attacks in my lifetime.
Well, sorry for the rant.
Do you know how we find out who the sponsor's of this show are? ABC is all about money, and we should band together and write the sponsors and let them know that we will no longer watch a channel that makes such bad choices.
You had better believe I sent in my nastygram. I'm STUNNED at ABC for doing this. I used to be a big ABC watcher, news and all.
I was teaching the day it happened. I was on a prep break and an old colleague and I ran to the downtown pizza place to watch it on t.v. We could see the black smoke in the sky all the way from downtown Red Bank. And we were asked to not tell the kids until the end of the day. I had two kids in that class whose parents were across the river there. It was mortifying not knowing what was happening - if they were OK.
To hear that Scholastic was actually considering covering the docu-drama as a factual synopsis of the events is mind-blowing to me as an educator. Makes me wonder if they're hurting for sales to be that desperate. Regardless, I'm still annoyed.
the shrub is somehow paying ABC to put this on the air to boost his political agenda.
I will not watch it and I will put in my 2 cents worth on your link.
this country needs to get its *&%$ together - november is coming up, people. remember "we the people" (it's the beginning of the constitution) CAN change the current regime. don't believe the hype!
anne marie in philly
Beautifully clean stairway, Annie! Gleams like brand-new.
I'll keep mostly out of the political dialogue, but I agree that any kind of movie or documentary really should wait at least 10 years. It's all too fresh. Those kinds of things are for those who don't remember/didn't live through it.
It is scary, however, how many movies are touted as factual/"docu-dramas", etc. and fed to our kids as fact from the schools. :(
Hi Annie - am definitely on the same basic side of the fence as you, I think (I'm probably farther left, if you can believe it) and will not be watching any 9/11 stuff. Haven't watched any of the movies -It's too darn real still. I'm from NY and live in MD - actually had a client who was scheduled to work at the Pentagon that day, but last minute change of plans saved his life. Nope, not me - not gonna watch. Not a big fan of Le shrub, either, but that's not really the point in this. The point is someone attacked US - all of us, not the Repubs or the Dems or the Moslems or the Christians or the Jews - ALL of us. At a moment in history we had a horrible event happen - to innocent human beings caught in the crosshairs of some third-century thinker's crossbow. we also had an opportunity as a country to do better than we ultimately did - and for that I am disappointed.
I'm going to be singing at an evensong service, remembering the dead and praying for peace among other things. Definitely not doing TV!
I don't shut up about anything on my knitting blog because it's not just about knitting. Good Lord if anyone is, that would be truly sad!
I'm glad you're not!
Take care,
FSK
"I wish there were a moratorium on anything but serious, well researched DOCUMENTARIES on this event for at least 10 years after 9/11/01."
as someone who lives in lower manhattan and watched the scene unfurl from my bedroom window, I heartily agree.
Now that I have reread my comment, it sounds like what i said was "I'd like to say i love you...but I can't" what I meant was "I'd like to start out by saying that I love you" That evens sounds stupid.
I read your blog, I love your designs, I respect your beliefs and understand your views.
That's what i meant to say. So there.
You don't have to post this - you can if you want. I just wanted to clear that up.
Last night, I made a horrible mistake. I was knitting by myself, and somehow happened upon a documentary called "Inside the Twin Towers" on the Discovery Channel. I was hypnotized and terrorized by it. Luckily,my dh called long distance and I was able to break the spell and shut it off. I'm mainly an NPR gyrrl and those images were too much for me.
My family's from DC and NYC. The stories from that day are still too hard, and too fresh. As the lone family member who was not near the disasters, I fielded many scary phone calls that day, and on the days after. It's hard to talk to your sil when fighter jets keep flying overhead her apartment near the Pentagon.
I too wrote ABC..and I'm unhappy with how this administration has handled things. My only regret is that I have only one vote. In Kentucky, I'll be terribly outnumbered.
I've already weighed in with ABC on the crap-umentary....
The only movie about 9/11/01 that I'm remotely tempted to watch is "United 53." Anyone see this? From what I hear, it's very factual, very straightforward (no Hollywood crap) and very moving. I haven't decided yet.
Kudos to you on the massive cleaning! Wish I could get into that groove!
Thanks for posting your comments on the docu-drama. Why is there so much news and reports on 9/11 this year? Have I really been working long hours the previous years or are elections around the corner?
I did watch the firefighter documentary that was shown on CBS because it started out as a film documentation of a life of a firefighter. I also saw the NBC show on Flight 93 tonight and they interviewed family members. I will not watch any movies or other films as I cried each night watching the shows.
I live in South Carolina however; I have visited New York City many times and now fly in and out of Boston several times a year. My thoughts are with all that were impacted by the terrible event. I co not want to live in fear and am greatly disappointed in ABC for supporting the docu-drama.
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