ABC seems to have done something really right, really big. On August 18, Govinda Murty published at Libertas a review of ABC's upcoming miniseries "The path to 9/11" (ABC, Sunday, September 10, and Monday September 11 - check your local listings) commending it highly both as a work of art and for its honest portrayal of the hijacking incident. This review was was updated at Libertas on August 24 and also published at Human Events and Front Page as well.

I decided to delay linking to this review and plugging the miniseries so that this post would not be buried and forgotten by the time September 10 rolled around. But it seems that an honest miniseries has created controversy and Libertas has found it necessary to bring us up to date here - Libertas update

I strongly urge you to visit the original Libertas review and one or another of the updated and expanded reviews given above, and then the Librtas update. Then, if you are the sort of person who is reading this blog, I will not have to give any further encouragement to schedule your Sunday evening to begin the series. I do not expect that I will be responding to much email that evening.

Tip of the helmet to Eric

-Rurik

Contributed by George Mellinger on September 4, 2006 at 01:46 PM in Eric Bogomolny, Film, George Mellinger, Islamism Delenda Est | Permalink

Comments

Posted by: The Gray Dog

Rurik,

Rush Limbaugh commented on this special at length this past Friday, remarking that much heat was being put on ABC's President/CEO Robert Iger by prominent Democrats, including a planned phone call by none other than 'Slick Willy' asking to either pull the program, or edit out certain sequences detrimental to the Clinton Administration.

It looks like this special has too much steam to be pulled back now. I know where I'll be while it airs.

Posted by: The Gray Dog | Sep 4, 2006 4:06:28 PM

Posted by: 1st Cav

While reading the post the Mrs. came in and told me about all the trailers now being run on ABC about this piece. If ABC cuts out scenes that reliable sources have already used to formulate their reviews, then ABC should get a lawsuit slapped on them. Otherwise the reviews are terrific and I will definitely be watching.If done properly ABC may regain a bit of their lost credibility.

Posted by: 1st Cav | Sep 4, 2006 9:16:32 PM