Uncle Bill Posted March 25, 2008 Share Posted March 25, 2008 sorry man, I gave up on PBS years ago, I'm not going to waste my time watching their obviously biased reporting. Maybe I'll see what's on FOX NEWS lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suz Posted March 25, 2008 Share Posted March 25, 2008 sorry man, I gave up on PBS years ago, I'm not going to waste my time watching their obviously biased reporting. Maybe I'll see what's on FOX NEWS lol. I like Frontline. What's your example of obviously biased reporting? The only thing I can think of may be some things I've seen on NOW, but overall it's a pretty good, in-depth show. Which is what I like about PBS. I saw "Bush's War," and Hermit's right: the stuff was coming straight out of the mouths of people from the administration. Fox is a friggin' joke, IMO. It reminds me of the propaganda from other countries. I quit watcing it years ago, because it was so stupid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hermit Posted March 25, 2008 Author Share Posted March 25, 2008 sorry man, I gave up on PBS years ago, I'm not going to waste my time watching their obviously biased reporting. Maybe I'll see what's on FOX NEWS lol. ok,.. you do that. *CLICK* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Bill Posted March 25, 2008 Share Posted March 25, 2008 I like Frontline. What's your example of obviously biased reporting? The only thing I can think of may be some things I've seen on NOW, but overall it's a pretty good, in-depth show. Which is what I like about PBS. I saw "Bush's War," and Hermit's right: the stuff was coming straight out of the mouths of people from the administration. Fox is a friggin' joke, IMO. It reminds me of the propaganda from other countries. I quit watcing it years ago, because it was so stupid. The last part of your post explains the first part, you only get one side of the story. With their long history of bashing the current Admin the title was plenty for me. I didn't think it was likely to be unbiased/ worth watching, from the little I've seen here looks like I was right. More of the same. I'm capable of finding plenty wrong with the ALL of the politicians on my own thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Electrophile Posted March 25, 2008 Share Posted March 25, 2008 I like Frontline. What's your example of obviously biased reporting? The only thing I can think of may be some things I've seen on NOW, but overall it's a pretty good, in-depth show. Which is what I like about PBS. I saw "Bush's War," and Hermit's right: the stuff was coming straight out of the mouths of people from the administration. Fox is a friggin' joke, IMO. It reminds me of the propaganda from other countries. I quit watcing it years ago, because it was so stupid. FOX News is the biggest waste of cable space next to MTV. It's shit. Pure, unadulterated shit. I'd rather watch a 24-hour marathon of the Real World than 10 minutes of the Fascist News Network*. *my dad's nickname for it, not mine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigstickbonzo Posted March 26, 2008 Share Posted March 26, 2008 Fox News' latest claim that they indeed are the best News Channel out there... O'Reilly bringing Karl Rove on to discuss how Obama's former minister will be the end of him. I tried watching it but felt the urge to get a pistol and blow a hole through Rove's fucking head. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Electrophile Posted March 26, 2008 Share Posted March 26, 2008 Every time some windbag on that station claims they are "fair and balanced", God kills a kitten. DON'T THEY CARE ABOUT THE KITTENS?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suz Posted March 26, 2008 Share Posted March 26, 2008 Every time some windbag on that station claims they are "fair and balanced", God kills a kitten. DON'T THEY CARE ABOUT THE KITTENS?! But (in the words of Eddie Izzard) "Do you have a FLAG???" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zepyep Posted September 12, 2008 Share Posted September 12, 2008 The Continuing Censorship of ‘The Path to 9/11′ By John Ziegler Writer/Director/Producer “Blocking the Path to 9/11″ Just less than seven years ago it would have been impossible to predict that the horrific events of September 11, 2001 would be as forgotten as they now seem today. In those heady days of national unity that marked the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on America, we made a communal pledge that we would never forget the victims or the lessons of that fateful day. There is little doubt that we have long ago betrayed that promise. There is no more dramatic example of this distressing reality than what has happened to the one major film that attempted to answer a very simple and yet extremely complex question: How was that day allowed to happen? In 2006, exactly five years after the attacks, ABC attempted to broadcast “The Path to 9/11.” The extraordinary mini-series was a $40 million, five-hour-plus production that aired, commercial-free, over two nights, in prime time. However, prior to broadcast, Bill Clinton and members of his former administration went ballistic after discovering that one scene in the film dealt with the many opportunities during his presidency to kill or capture Usama bin Laden. A two-week firestorm erupted and the film had several key scenes edited out of the completed and legally vetted version before finally airing with numerous disclaimers. Since then, the film which was originally intended to run each year around 9/11, has not been broadcast again and the DVD has never been released. While it has been reported that this decision was made over concerns about disrupting Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, Robert Iger, the head of Disney (the parent company of ABC) declared at this year’s shareholder meeting that it was “simply a business decision” to not put out the DVD. He made this odd declaration despite the fact that DVD distribution would have limited costs associated with it and not doing so insured a $40 million loss on the project. We now know (thanks to the book, “Clinton in Exile”) that it was Bill Clinton himself, among others, who called Iger and demanded that movie be edited or pulled. With the specter of a then nearly certain Hillary Clinton presidency staring them in the face (and with Iger and many others in the film’s management hierarchy already financial contributors to the Clintons), Disney caved and committed perhaps the most blatant, under-reported, and significant act of censorship in modern American history. I have devoted most of the last year of my life to producing a documentary on the controversy surrounding “The Path to 9/11.” My film, “Blocking the Path to 9/11,” has put together O.J. Simpson-like evidence demonstrating that the initial smear of the movie and the filmmakers was a travesty of justice so “Simpsonian” in its proportions that Americans of all political stripes should be equally outraged. What anyone who sees my film is likely to conclude is that the great irony of the “The Path to 9/11″ being branded — and largely discredited –as a product of a right-wing conspiracy within Hollywood (a concept which is absurd enough on its own) is that almost all of those who made the docudrama were so liberal that they feared attacks from the right on the mini-series. Among the many revelations my documentary provides is new evidence that what Disney actually did was to take a dive on their own movie. They did this by preventing the liberals in charge of the film from speaking out in defense of the movie. Why? Because, amazingly, they preferred the scenario of unilateral disarmament (not to mention throwing away $40 million) to rebutting and embarrassing the Clintons. The writer/producer, director, research assistant, and editors of “The Path to 9/11″ have all demonstrated enormous career courage (something rarer in Hollywood than a starlet without plastic surgery) to participate in this documentary. They risked their standing in Hollywood because they believe in this film and want to stand up for the truth and what is right. Unfortunately, their courage has not been matched by any of the numerous entertainment organizations that pretend to defend free speech but have been shockingly silent on this issue, apparently for fear of appearing to protect “conservatives.” The news media as a whole (which is also skewered in the documentary) should be embarrassed by their complicity in this smear and the injustice, too. One of the many unfortunate consequences of this controversy is that the education company Scholastic also caved to left-wing pressure and killed their plan to use “The Path to 9/11″ as a teaching tool in schools. Seven years after 9/11 we live in a state where teaching “global warming” is part of the official curriculum, but the events of 9/11 are not. It is now an anomaly to meet a youngster who has yet to reach their teen years who has any memory or even rudimentary knowledge of 9/11. If those who do not know their history truly are doomed to repeat it, we are well on our way to disgracing the memories of those who died on 9/11and setting ourselves up for making the same mistakes again. The continuing censorship of “The Path to 9/11″ is both emblematic and symptomatic of that sad truth. Blocking the path to 9/11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigstickbonzo Posted September 14, 2008 Share Posted September 14, 2008 Is it me or have Obama's words gone rotten? Or is this just the trend amongst the Independent vote? I can't speak for all of them, but when McCain (08) preceeds over common sense about everything but foreign policy, as oppossed to McCain (00), its no wonder this election could very well swing conservative, again floundering what a "republican" is by definition. If Obama were smart, and I know he's got something floundering between those ears, he'd hit the college circuit and further secure the youth vote; who typically don't vote Democratic, and what the GOP is drinking on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Del Zeppnile Posted September 14, 2008 Share Posted September 14, 2008 That sucks. I'd like to see "The Path to 9/11". I have seen both the edited and 'pre-edited' versions. The whole thing was a joke, and Disney-ABC is correct in wanting to bury that crap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zepyep Posted September 14, 2008 Share Posted September 14, 2008 Hi Del,all, I have seen both the edited and 'pre-edited' versions. The whole thing was a joke, and Disney-ABC is correct in wanting to bury that crap. Then how come *I* can see it,at-all?Then judge for myself? So I can see Triumph of the Will ,but not this? I can watch Al(carbon footprints) Gore supposed 'Truth',... What's next; Reefer Madness?!? KB(no,no, I don't smoke it no more,...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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