ABC

The big dog finally barks

Correction. His foundation barks.

Agence France Presse:

"The content of this drama is factually and incontrovertibly inaccurate, and ABC has a duty to fully correct all errors or pull the drama entirely," the foundation's executive director, Bruce Lindsey, said in a letter to the head of ABC's parent company, Disney.

"It is unconscionable to mislead the American public about one of the most horrendous tragedies our country has ever known," the letter said.

Still waiting for The Big Dog, though. Read more…

The Smallest Violin You'll Ever Hear Me Play

Here's something you rarely get out of me. Brevity. I was travelling without computers this weekend, so I missed a lot of the blogosphere reaction to the ABC hatchet job on "9/11 = The Clenis." But reading through a lot of the efforts, I've got to wonder how a coordinated blogswarm to make it instead the rallying cry for a national movement to turn it off would've gone. People wrote a lot of letters to uncaring executives on the Bush payroll, and media people who have exactly no motivation to be other than willing lapdogs. If instead they had begun conversations with their neighbors and friends, how could that have gone? And to what effect? Even shorter: what? you didn't really expect the TV people to tell the truth about 9/11? Did you? ABC is one of the "free" networks, and in my world, you get what you pay for. There's also the notion of GI/GO. Read more…

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