Reply #51: Another thing to note...

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"Path to 9/11" is being aired over the PUBLIC airwaves, for which ABC affiliates must have licenses to operate. Therefore their obligations to be non-partisan are far MORE the case over the public airwaves than they are in distributing films, which aren't utilizing this publicly owned resource. So even though Disney/Miramax was trying to claim the need to be "neutral" in its policies earlier for distributing Fahrenheit 9/11, in the distribution space there arguably is LESS of a need to be neutral than over the public airwaves where ABC is given license to use these airwaves by WE THE PEOPLE in distributing their content. Broadcasts over the air should arguably be MORE concerned about maintaining neutrality than distribution of films. That's why this analogy, though great, doesn't even do enough to show the evil that ABC is engaged in in its partisan policies that go against it's customers, many of its investors, many of its employees, and the public owned resources its using.

And for them trying to argue that it is about making profit, they don't seem to be getting advertisers, and note what happens in the past when you have partisan "deals" with the GOP by other companies. Right wing CEO Patrick Byrne of Overstock.com is probably costing that money quite a bit of money with his partisan "exclusive" distribution of Fahrenhype 9/11, which he was having to practically give away now on his site, selling of his inventory of book together with DVD for $1.00. Looks like he now doesn't have the DVD for sale any more, but he still has the DVD companion book only for $1 now.

http://www.overstock.com/cgi-bin/d2.cgi?PAGE=PROFRAME&PROD_ID=998047

I'm sure that investors aren't happy with this sort of partisan political running of companies that he and those at ABC are running that is not profitable for their investments.