ABC And The Mousetrap

Joe Gandelman covers the 9/11 fakumentary fracas better than I could. Go read his whole post.

In case you've been on Mars this week, ABC is planning on running a commercial-free docudrama about the events leading up to 911. The only hitch: it has been labeled politically biased and called a virtual campaign document for the White House. The tipoff: you see the right defending it and saying how great and refreshingly true it is and you see the left saying how outrageous and biased it is.

Now, there are signs that ABC is trying to gingerly avoid losing a whole segment of the American public (basically, those who don't listen to Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, who are not registered Republicans and who don't think that only one administration and one party contributed to 911 taking place) by doing what they should have done at the outset: tone down parts of it to get some balance in the story of 911. Because anyone who has read the 911 Commission reports or parts of it KNOWS that administrations of BOTH parties failed miserably to connect the dots, squelch life-costing inter-agency bickering, and pay proper attention to a telegraphed threat to attack the American homeland.