Clinton Administration Urges Disney to Cancel or Revise 9/11 Mini-Series

THREE FROM CLINTON ADMINISTRATION URGE DISNEY TO CANCEL OR REVISE 9/11 MINI-SERIES
[SOURCE: New York Times, AUTHOR: Jesse McKinley]
Three members of the Clinton administration -- former Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright, former national security adviser Samuel R. Berger, and former White House aide Bruce R. Lindsey -- have written the chief executive of the Walt Disney Company, ABC’s parent, to complain that the network’s coming two-part miniseries “The Path to 9/11” is fraught with factual errors and fabrications. The letters ask that the five-hour movie, scheduled for broadcast Sunday and Monday, be either edited for accuracy or canceled, and ABC gave a small indication yesterday that some changes might be made. ABC, meanwhile, continued to explain that the mini-series, though largely drawn from the report of the Sept. 11 commission, was a dramatization, not a documentary. But the network appeared to be leaving the door open to last-minute changes in the film. The series, which cost almost $40 million, is to be broadcast without commercials, but a network spokesperson said this had been planned, as a public service, and had nothing to do with any pressure that might have been brought on prospective advertisers.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/07/washington/07path.html
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