The Path to 9/11–Some Improvements 0

I received an email from the Center for American Progress Action Fund summarizing last-minute changes ABC made to The Path to 9/11 .

Here are the highlights:

Our team reviewed the first half of the program as it aired, and your efforts led to several problematic elements being fixed:

• In its advertising to promote the film, ABC stopped making the claim that the film was “based on the 9/11 Commission Report.”
• An extended disclaimer ran both before and after the film explaining that the movie contains “fictionalized scenes.”
• A key fabricated scene falsely depicting Clinton National Security Adviser Samuel Berger that had been included in earlier copies of the movie was substantially cut back.

The buzz your efforts created in the press also led to significant victories:

• ABC’s educational distribution partner, Scholastic, significantly revised materials they planned to send to 100,000 high school teachers, incorporating the controversy as part of their teaching tools.
• ABC’s Internet distribution partner, Apple, has apparently abandoned plans to make the movie available for free on iTunes.
• More broadly, our efforts to fight for the truth will permanently be linked to this ABC project. Hundreds of newspapers and television reports described the inaccuracies that were part of the initial version of the movie.

Of course, all that means is that the lies were muted.

You can find the actual 9/11 Commission Report here and judge for yourselves.