[msnimje]

Why do they say Iger is a Republican?. Someone posted his political donations here on FR the other day and it was slap full of democrats and two RINOs (Specter and another I can't remember).

[Spktyr]

Of the BS MSM networks, ABC seems to be the one that gives the most effort (pitiful as it is) to seem "fair and balanced." For example, they employ John Stossel, and he's gored any number of liberal sacred cows on their dime and airtime.

[goldfinch]

No. I doubt it. It would be interesting if one of the networks decided to move their newscasts more to the center or even a little to the right to distinguish themselves from their competition. It would be interesting to see if their ratings would go up...but I don't see it happening anytime soon.

[Atchafalaya]

I'll leave my "LOL, who's wine, what wine, where the hell did I dine" on the table if ya'll believe that.

[dasboot]

Y' gotta question the timing of this.



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[Bullish]

I suspect a lot of the oldtimers at Disney and ABC are pretty pissed off about this.

[D-fendr]

One thing that's overlooked that I think may have had an effect:
An ABC journalist has a starring hero role.

[Brad from Tennessee]

If ABC is moving toward the middle you will see it in their news programing. The problem in that industry is that most broadcast news people are already corrupt. You would have to get rid of most of the reporters, producers and writers and start over with young people. CNN, when they first hit the screen, was like a breath of fresh air in contrast to the alphabet networks. But over time they hired the pseudo intellectual airheads from other networks. And Ted Turner married Jane Fonda and started fancying himself as an internationalist. I really would like to see ABC news go back to the Howard K. Smith days.

[pennboricua]

I would imagine that eventually in our free enterprise system a corporation being in business for gains and not altruistic reasons, would have to realize that continuing to favor one party over the other does not make much business sence, profit is the name of the game.

[goldstategop]

No it isn't. The MSM will remain firmly tilted to the Left. One TV series is not going to change their attitude.

(No more Olmert! No more Kadima! No more Oslo! )

[Vision]

Do we have any idea what edits were made? They edited 30 minutes which seems pretty significant.

This is an investment and a company can't lose money because reality will make their buddies look bad.

As Rush said, they need to make a docu-drama about the docu-drama; about what Clinton was doing to shut this thing down.

[DustyMoment]

despite the small edits, do you think abc is actually trying to leave the (democrat media party) plantation?

Nope. I think there are other things in play. First, they had already aggressively advertised the show and couldn't back out of it. Secondly, I think the threats coming from Clinton's lawyers may have been enough to tick Iger off and push him to decide to proceed with the show.

Either way, it makes no difference to me. The fact that they edited ANYTHING from the film after Clinton started crying was enough to convince me not to watch it.

On a tangent, it occurs to me that Clinton and Nero share a lot in common. One fiddled while Rome burned, the other diddled while New York (and the WTC) burned!

[Vinnie]

I'm going to withhold my assessment of the program until after tonight's episode.
I'll bet the Bush Admin. is raked over the coals tonight.

IMHO Sandy Berger is the 'heavy' so far. Of course he is relating orders or lack of them from his 'boss'.
Reason for stuffing confidential docs down his pants?

[Mr. Thorne]

I got one impression after watching a snippet of it last night (my mind was not on TV at the time; I only remembered it because I 'surfed' to the low end of the channel pool at one point, and saw that it was on).

I saw the actress playing Albright explain how State had warned Pakistan before a covert op had taken place, knowing that Pakistan's Secret Service was riddled w/AQ operatives and sympathizers. I saw 'Berger' and 'Albright' tell 'Tenet' to "just do your job", and saw him reply that he was trying to do so.

Just now, watching F&F, they had a member of the supposedly non-partisan 9-11 commission on for commentary regarding the first half of the presentation. Rohmer(sp?), a Democrat, recited the boilerplate about how ABC should've stuck to the facts, yada yada yada. Then Doocy (I believe) asked about the scene I saw last night (Albright warns Pakistan). Rohmer went off on another 'why weren't the facts good enough' tangent, but NEVER answered the question: did SOS Albright, in fact, blow a covert op aimed at Bin Laden by warning her Pakistani counterparts.

All that was required of Rohmer was a simple "No, that's definitely false" or something similar. That he did not, or could not, answer this simple question regarding what I, personally, would consider a major question of priorities (are you more concerned with our operatives and their mission or keeping your international friends happy), says to me that this particular incident, at least, is true to life, or nearly so.

IMHO, of course.

[Marathoner]

Well, ABC has been the easiest of the big three for me to stomach. Perhaps it's because they're the only ones who haven't employed Perky Katie.

[Revererdrv]

ABC may be trying to change an image of being liberal.
Last night was at least a start!

[wtc911]

Hillary - they don't want her as POTUS.

[MissAmericanPie]

On 9-11 a line was drawn deeply in the sand. The American people turned their backs on America haters, the liberal talking heads, and the viewer ratings went into the basement for all the alphabet soup Marxist news media.

It wasn't long before the talks began of collapsing into each other in the vain hope that this action would help prop them up. They sat watching in horror as the American flag began to wave from every home, business, and automobiles and Fox News began to take home the bacon in earnest as the place to go for the unvarnished truth.

There was talk then here on FR that these stations might begin to move to the middle and what that would mean. What it means is too little, far too late. People have long memories contrary to popular belief.

Now you have the comedic push on the part of the Demonrat Party to have the nerve to reach out for votes from the very Evangelical Christians that they have trampled under foot for decades suggesting that these Evangelicals would eventually erupt into violent radicalism. Now that history has shown that radical Islam, not Evangelicals are the ones that track toward violence the Alphabet Soup news media are left with egg on their faces.

It will take decades before anyone believes that this leopard has changed it's spots.

[nativist]

Sure this movie is damning to Clinton, it can't help but be,but I would say they went out of their way to be easy on Clinton. I found the fact that they seemed to edit out the numerous attacks from the first WTC bombing to where they left off last night odd. They had about 15 more minutes they could have filled.

I think they green lighted a movie they thought would make them money and that it would damn Bush more than Clinton because liberals blame Bush's 8 month's in office more than Clinton's eight years. When the movie came out the way it did there was not much of a way to edit out Clinton's role. I saw very little advertising for such a big budgeted movie.

My guess is that libs are used to reading 20 pages of a 300 page book and forming their opinion. When the entire book was turned into a movie they were shocked at "who actually done it".

[Mogollon]

Something is afoot. I did not expect Oliver Stone to ever make a movie that was not spueing left-wing drivel but the WTC movie recently released was pretty good and I didn't notice one shot at dubya or republicans in it.

However, ABC becoming fair and balanced is still doubtful.