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Skriven 2006-09-10 23:13:00 av Robert E Starr JR (8526.babylon5)
Ärende: Re: ABC backs down on 9/1
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>> On Sat, 9 Sep 2006 18:00:49 -0400, Carl wrote
(in article <IeKdnRBS4voJpJ7YnZ2dnUVZ_u6dnZ2d@comcast.com>):

> 
> "Night Marshal" <mattyankees_2000@yahoo.com> wrote in message 
> news:1157821796.852583.127440@e3g2000cwe.googlegroups.com...
>> 
>> Carl wrote:
>>> "Amy Guskin" <aisling@fjordstone.com> wrote in message
>>> news:0001HW.C1285444042A1BFEF0407530@news.verizon.net...
>>>>>> On Fri, 8 Sep 2006 17:03:24 -0400, Greg Bryant wrote
>>>> (in article <C12752DC.EFC0%gabryant@fuse.net>):
>>>> 
>>>>> http://www.nydailynews.com/09-08-2006/news/story/450443p-379111c.html 
>>>>> <<
>>>> 
>>>> Here's some information that definitely adds to this conversation:
>>>> 
>>>> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-blumenthal/discover-the-secret-
>>>> right_b_29015.html
>>>> 
>>>> What many people are apparently unaware of is that the writer, and the
>>>> director of this project are both closely affiliated with Youth with a
>>>> Mission, an ultra-right-wing evangelical Christian group whose mission 
>>>> it
>>>> is
>>>> to reform Godless Hollywood from the inside out.  This certainly puts a
>>>> different spin on the idea that this was just some regular old 
>>>> Hollywood
>>>> producers making a miniseries about 9/11 and -- ooopsy! -- they got 
>>>> some
>>>> of
>>>> the finer points wrong, all by absolutely innocent mistake.
>>>> 
>>>> Amy
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Sure. It's biased.  So?
>> 
>> So much for free speach, I guess the demacrats only believe in it when
>> it not attacking them. Rightfully or not. and it good to know that
>> Senate Minority Leader is spending his time threating TV channels.
>> http://reid.senate.gov/newsroom/record.cfm?id=262624&&year=2006&
>> Funny how a little pressure beings out there true colours.
>> 
> 
> When the CBS show on Reagan came out, the right did the same thing.
> 
> Everything is biased. Anyone that thought shows like the West Wing or 
> whatever the Geena Davis as president show was called was a fair portrayal 
> is wearing some very tinted glasses. <<

But West Wing and Commander-in-Chief were _fictional_ series, through and 
through.  They weren't portraying actual, living people who served in 
government and actual events and screwing up the facts with their Hollywood 
liberal bias.  HUGE difference.

>> A person can either try to suppress the other side (and by doing so giving 
> up all right to complain when they do the same) or they can let the other 
> side go and then correct whatever mistakes and misstatements that were made. 
> Scream them at the top of your lungs until you're hoarse... then broadcast 
> them all over the 'net.  If the mistakes are intentional and aggregious, 
> then anyone that cares about such things will factor that into anythng from 
> that source in the future.   I doubt that many people care anyway though.<<

All of this 'pc' evenhandedness is getting in the way of objective truth.  
There _is_ an objective truth, and it's one thing to present a biased picture 
of what someone in Hollywood would like American government to be like -- 
"West Wing" -- and say, "Okay, that's biased -- I'm not going to watch it."  
But you cannot let people present lies and distortion about _actual events_ 
as _history_.

I may have told this story here before, and if so, I apologize for repeating 
myself, but it's so apt here I can't pass up the opportunity.  I read a book 
a few years back called "Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth 
and Memory" by Deborah Lipstadt.  In the intro, Dr. Lipstadt talked about 
being called by Oprah's producer to appear on her show.  They were also going 
to have on the show a guy from an organization whose name thankfully escapes 
me right now.  It's a group in California that has a legitimate sounding 
name, and that purports to be a group devoted to historical review.  They are 
actually not-so-thinly-veiled Holocaust deniers.  Dr. Lipstadt said that she 
didn't want to do the show, and the producer was incredulous.  Why would you 
turn down an appearance on a huge national show like Oprah's?  The producer 
said that, after they told their side, wouldn't she want the chance to tell 
hers?  That's just it, said Dr. Lipstadt: they don't HAVE a "side."  Their 
"side" is a lie, and she felt that if she were to appear in a debate with 
them, it would only lend their lies credence.

I see this ABC production by those Youth with a Mission people as exactly 
that.  Lies that are being given legitimacy by their association with ABC 
television.

Amy
                                                           
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