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ABC's Untrue Path -- "Docudramas" are the worst draft of history.
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| Sept. 11, 2006
| John Fund
Posted on 09/11/2006 12:44:19 PM PDT by PDR
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posted on
09/11/2006 12:44:20 PM PDT
by
PDR
To: PDR
the portrayal of real events and people by actors--are a poor way to teach children and adults history.
I'll agree with them there...but I don't know what the alternative is. Unless something goes on the TV...it might as well have never have happened.
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posted on
09/11/2006 12:47:11 PM PDT
by
P-40
(Al Qaeda was working in Iraq. They were just undocumented.)
To: PDR
I don't have a problem with criticism of the program.
What I DO have a problem with is Democrat officeholders threatening the FCC license of ABC.
THAT'S censorship.
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posted on
09/11/2006 12:47:28 PM PDT
by
cvq3842
To: PDR
REAL event portrayed by REAL participants:
They considered their roles to be a JOKE.
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posted on
09/11/2006 12:48:35 PM PDT
by
weegee
(Remember "Remember the Maine"? Well in the current war "Remember the Baby Milk Factory")
To: PDR
It's especially iffy to take dramatic license in telling the story of events in which many of the principal players are still living, such as 9/11 or President Reagan's administration. No, they can refute it with facts. Unfortunately, the Klintoonites don't have facts on their side.
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posted on
09/11/2006 12:48:39 PM PDT
by
frogjerk
(REUTERS: We give smoke and mirrors a bad name)
To: PDR
Some of us do not use docudramas as teaching tools.
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posted on
09/11/2006 12:49:01 PM PDT
by
msnimje
(What part of-- "DEATH TO AMERICA" --do the Democrats not understand?)
To: PDR
My problem with docudramas is that the actors are always better looking than the actual people.
This is especially true of bad guys on "America's Most Wanted."
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posted on
09/11/2006 12:50:06 PM PDT
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: weegee
Every time I see that picture I think Sandy Berger should be hanged at the WTC site.
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posted on
09/11/2006 12:50:39 PM PDT
by
msnimje
(What part of-- "DEATH TO AMERICA" --do the Democrats not understand?)
To: PDR
I suppose John Fund expressed the same opinion about Moore's film, right?
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posted on
09/11/2006 12:51:54 PM PDT
by
the anti-liberal
(OUR schools are damaging OUR children)
To: P-40
Why do we even need the word "docudrama"? Isn't every play or movie that is about real people and events but is recreated with actors a "docudrama"? And aren't there
thousands of those? Hasn't that been a Hollywood staple since there was a Hollywood?
They all have to make changes from reality (if for no other reason than the constraints of time). Whether the changes constitute a distortion is a case-by-case thing.
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posted on
09/11/2006 12:52:08 PM PDT
by
prion
(Yes, as a matter of fact, I AM the spelling police)
To: PDR
The woman who played Madeleine Albright should get an Emmy. Very believable.
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posted on
09/11/2006 12:52:32 PM PDT
by
Dixie Yooper
(Ephesians 6:11)
To: the anti-liberal
Did John Fund denounce the film that pasted George Bush's head onto an actor's body for that assassination film?
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posted on
09/11/2006 12:53:09 PM PDT
by
weegee
(Remember "Remember the Maine"? Well in the current war "Remember the Baby Milk Factory")
To: PDR
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posted on
09/11/2006 12:53:53 PM PDT
by
pissant
To: PDR
Oh yeah, real documentaries like "Fahrenheit 9/11" are so much better. /sarcasm
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posted on
09/11/2006 12:53:58 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: frogjerk
Unfortunately, the Klintoonites don't have facts on their side. They never have, they never will. What they DO have going for them is a compliant media, a leftist education establishment, and spineless political opposition.
To: Dixie Yooper
The woman who played Madeleine Albright should get an Emmy. Very believable.I heard they applied the actress's makeup with a Power Painter to get the right Mad Maddie look.
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posted on
09/11/2006 12:54:11 PM PDT
by
dirtboy
(This tagline has been photoshopped)
To: P-40
"the portrayal of real events and people by actors--are a poor way to teach children and adults history. "That's what's done every evening and morning on the MSM "news"....
To: P-40
I disagree with this assessment. If words are recorded from meeting notes and corraborated then acting them out is only repeating history.
The only thing I will agree with is taking 10 or 12 "chances" to get Bin Laden and trying to make one spectacular episode out of them.
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posted on
09/11/2006 12:54:49 PM PDT
by
WoodstockCat
(General Honore: "The storm gets a vote... We're not stuck on stupid.")
To: Dixie Yooper
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posted on
09/11/2006 12:55:12 PM PDT
by
WoodstockCat
(General Honore: "The storm gets a vote... We're not stuck on stupid.")
To: PDR
At worst, they can be used by ideological gunslingers like director Oliver Stone, who smeared the reputations of Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon in paranoid fantasy films. I must say though, that Stone was actually fairly kind to Nixon at the end of the movie. Of course he had to show the clip of the Sinkmeister speaking at Nixon's funeral.
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posted on
09/11/2006 12:55:36 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
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