{"id":8430,"date":"2006-09-11T12:30:48","date_gmt":"2006-09-11T16:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/8430.html"},"modified":"2006-09-11T12:30:48","modified_gmt":"2006-09-11T16:30:48","slug":"the-path-to-relatively-successful-online-activism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/the-path-to-relatively-successful-online-activism\/","title":{"rendered":"The path to relatively successful online activism"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have a confession to make: I didn’t watch “The Path to 9\/11.” After all those concerns I reported on last week, I intended to tune in, if for no other reason than to help document the mistakes. But I didn’t get to it, and after reading some of the reviews, I honestly didn’t try very hard.<\/p>\n

Given the results, was all of last week’s work for naught? In one sense, it may seem like a defeat — political leaders and the grassroots urged ABC to pull its fictional movie, but the network demurred and aired it anyway. That said, as Judd noted<\/a> this morning, activists, particularly online activists, had an impressive impact during this controversy, both on the network and on its affiliates.<\/p>\n

* ABC stopped marketing Path to 9\/11 as “based on the 9\/11 report.”<\/p>\n

* An extended disclaimer<\/a> report ran three times during the first night alone.<\/p>\n

* Scholastic stopped promoting Path to 9\/11<\/a> to students.<\/p>\n

* Prominent media commentators, including many conservatives<\/a>, spoke out against the film.<\/p>\n

* Substantial edits<\/a> were made to the film.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sure, it’s disappointing that the program aired, but given one week’s worth of efforts, Judd’s list is pretty impressive.
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\nOne more docudrama note to bring to your attention. Alternet’s Evan Derkacz has posted a very good item<\/a> with two clips, one of the drama as it was going to be aired, and the second following “some lawyerly editing to cut down on the explicit misrepresentations in favor of implicit ones.” They’re worth watching, if only to see how big ABC’s mistake really is. As Evan put it:<\/p>\n

Think about what it must be like to be Sandy Berger or Madeleine Albright. Here you have ABC\/Disney greenlight this bozo project for $40 million, listening to no independent knowledgeable voice, lying about the contents of the final edit after criticism pours in, and STILL you’re accused of allowing the tragedy of 9\/11 for your cold and cowardly inability to act… Right wing operatives will always try to salt the media with revisionist BS. But shame on ABC\/Disney for biting.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Did any of you happen to tune in? Was it as bad as it sounded?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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