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  • Accuracy aside, ABC's '9/11' deserves to bomb (LEFTY 'TV CRITIC' ISSUES WARNING)

    09/08/2006 4:56:59 AM PDT · by Chi-townChief · 43 replies · 1,679+ views
    Chicago Sun-Times ^ | September 8, 2006 | DOUG ELFMAN TELEVISION CRITIC
    I once sat in a car forever waiting for my mom to come out of a grocery store. I thought that was the definition of "interminable." I had no idea "The Path to 9/11" was in my future. This is what happens during 4 1/2 lonnnng hours of "Path." Terrorists talk about killing Americans for Allah. FBI and other security officials try to track them but fail. 9/11 happens. You don't say. This is the most anticlimactic, tension-free movie in the history of terrorist TV. THE PATH TO 9/11' Critic's rating: Zero stars 7 to 10 p.m. Sunday and 7...
  • Did media miss real Colbert story? (????? ALERT)

    05/07/2006 9:53:58 AM PDT · by Chi-townChief · 81 replies · 3,814+ views
    Chicago Sun-Times ^ | May 7, 2006 | DOUG ELFMAN Television Critic
    A "blogstorm" is thundering across liberal Web sites. Many liberals are furious at the White House press corps for virtually ignoring Stephen Colbert's keynote speech at the press corp's own White House Correspondents' Dinner last Saturday. To non-liberals, this may seem like an isolated complaint. To liberals, it further justifies their belief that the media, particularly TV news, is a big stinking cabal of conservatives. The truth is many in the media wrote about Bush's stand-up routine at the dinner as if they had just watched the coming of a comic genius, but they didn't report much on Colbert's funnier,...