Leading Historians Call For Cancellation of "Fraudulent" 9/11 Docudrama

[kpete]

Leading Historians Call For Cancellation of "Fraudulent" ABC 9/11 Docudrama
Dear Robert Iger:

We write as professional historians, who are deeply concerned by the continuing reports about ABC's scheduled broadcast of "The Path to 9/11." These reports document that this drama contains numerous flagrant falsehoods about critical events in recent American history. The key participants and eyewitnesses to these events state that the script distorts and even fabricates evidence into order to mislead viewers about the responsibility of numerous American officials for allegedly ignoring the terrorist threat before 2000.

The claim by the show's producers, broadcaster, and defenders, that these falsehoods are permissible because the show is merely a dramatization, is disingenuous and dangerous given their assertions that the show is also based on authoritative historical evidence. Whatever ABC's motivations might be, broadcasting these falsehoods, connected to the most traumatic historical event of our times, would be a gross disservice to the public. A responsible broadcast network should have nothing to do with the falsification of history, except to expose it. We strongly urge you to halt the show's broadcast and prevent misinforming Americans about their history.

Sincerely,
Arthur Schlesinger
Sean Wilentz, Princeton University
Michael Kazin, Georgetown University
Lizbeth Cohen, Harvard University,
Nicholas Salvatore, Cornell University;
Ted Widmer, Washington College;
Rick Perlstein, Independent Scholar;
David Blight, Yale University;
Eric Alterman, City University of New York.

http://openlettertoabc.blogspot.com/2006/09/leading-historians-call-for.html

[calimary]

1. I'm no professional historian, but I wrote to Iger and company, too.

Gentlepeople,

PLEASE do the right thing. Not the "right" thing (as in pandering to the so-called "right" wing of American politics. PLEASE don't slander or libel the Clinton administration! "The Path to 9/11" is filled with lies, distortions, misrepresentations, and deceptions. PLEASE don't put it on the air! I don't want to feel compelled to stop watching ABC, or joining the growing boycott of ABC sponsors. But if this despicable miscarriage of truth and justice is allowed to air, I'm going to have to do both those things.

PLEASE pull this awful program!!!

Thank you.

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BTW - good thread here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...

BTW part two: ALL that contact info and more has been updated in the Five Star Activists' Resource Thread. Check Part Sixty, ESPECIALLY the Third Add.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...

[blm]

3. Your links aren't working, cali -

and your letter is dynamite.

[calimary]

9. Criminy! Thanks for catching this!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2816301 is for the first link, and

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=106x8816#28888
is for the second one.

Shit! I am SO sorry!

In my eagerness to spread this around, these goofy links are in several places now. I think I better post a note about it...

Good catch.

As Lucy once said in the "Peanuts" comic strip - "I'm never quite so stupid as when I'm being smart."

[Maddy McCall]

13. I am a professional historian, and I'm just tickled pink...

to see some of the powerhouses of my profession taking on the bastards.

:woohoo:

[Imagevision]

2. ABC can't fall back on "Some scenes dipicted are ficticious"

While claiming to be following the findings of the 9-11 commission findings.

[Imagevision]

4. Perhaps some of the 18 pages edited out by Bush/Cheney will come out

ABC are absurd to think the American people are going to buy this crap...

[Raffi Ella]

5. !!!

Thnaks for the post :kick:

[patricia92243]

6. The distortion of history is really what it is all about - not any one pe

person - as some of the right wing seems to think. If history were being distorted about Bush, these same people would be screaming their heads off.

[BootinUp]

7. At some point, most Americans will realize the show is deeply flawed.

And I think the tipping point is very near.

GREAT LETTER.

[StraightDope]

8. As a professional historian....

I couldn't agree more. Misinformation does a great disservice to those who would study the past. Unreliable information, especially first-hand accounts, are perhaps the biggest obstacle to overcome in the search for an understanding of the past.

[Solly Mack]

10. Good

It matters

[Generic Other]

11. Historians don't like propagandists

without good solid footnotes to back up their claims.

[dogday]

12. Way to Go Historians

Let's keep the truth, the truth....