Media Matters - ABC Entertainment

Media Matters - ABC Entertainment http://mediamatters.org/tools/syndication/tag_rss/abc_entertainment This link is for use by RSS-enabled software to retrieve Media Matters items matching the term: ABC Entertainment en-US Copyright 2008, Media Matters for America Spocko, Glenn Beck, and ABC http://mediamatters.org/items/200701160012 http://mediamatters.org/items/200701160012 Tue, 16 Jan 2007 18:07:24 EST ABC program chief falsely claimed network "didn't backpedal" on Path to 9/11 http://mediamatters.org/items/200701160006 http://mediamatters.org/items/200701160006 Tue, 16 Jan 2007 14:51:28 EST ABC shut down blogger who criticized violent rhetoric on one of its radio stations http://mediamatters.org/items/200701090004 The mainstream media have yet to report on the story of a blogger whose website was shut down after he began spotlighting inflammatory rhetoric common to several talk radio hosts on KSFO, an ABC Radio-owned station in San Francisco. http://mediamatters.org/items/200701090004 Tue, 9 Jan 2007 12:33:52 EST ABC VP presented with "Freedom of Expression Award" at right-wing film festival for her role in pushing The Path to 9/11 http://mediamatters.org/items/200611160009 The Liberty Film Festival, "a forum for conservative thought on film," recently awarded ABC Vice President Judith Tukich, a right-wing evangelical who has described her mission as "evangeliz[ing] the world ... through the media," the festival's "Freedom of Expression Award" for her role in assisting the production and promotion of The Path to 9/11. http://mediamatters.org/items/200611160009 Thu, 16 Nov 2006 17:01:06 EST Open letter from David Brock to ABC/Disney http://mediamatters.org/items/200609130009 http://mediamatters.org/items/200609130009 Wed, 13 Sep 2006 15:10:17 EST Part two of ABC's 9-11 "docudrama" contained falsified scenes bolstering Bush http://mediamatters.org/items/200609130003 A Media Matters for America review of the conclusion of ABC's two-part miniseries, The Path to 9/11, contained scenes that were factually inaccurate, and that showed President Bush taking aggressive action there is no indication he ever took. http://mediamatters.org/items/200609130003 Tue, 12 Sep 2006 21:03:44 EST Numerous reviews of ABC miniseries failed to note controversy surrounding its factual accuracy http://mediamatters.org/items/200609120002 Numerous newspapers ran positive reviews of the ABC miniseries The Path to 9/11 -- calling it "factual," "meticulous," and "completely true" -- failing to inform readers that it has been sharply criticized as inaccurate and even defamatory. http://mediamatters.org/items/200609120002 Mon, 11 Sep 2006 21:32:41 EST WSJ's Fund claimed Berger and Albright "persuaded ABC to alter scenes involving them" -- but central falsehoods remain http://mediamatters.org/items/200609120001 Columnist John Fund claimed that Sandy Berger and Madeleine Albright "persuaded ABC to alter the scenes involving them" in the miniseries The Path to 9/11. But while the scenes were apparently edited from earlier versions, both still presented depictions contradicted by both Clinton officials and the 9-11 Commission report. http://mediamatters.org/items/200609120001 Mon, 11 Sep 2006 21:10:21 EST ABC retained fabricated scene showing Clinton officials aborting mission to capture bin Laden http://mediamatters.org/items/200609110001 In its miniseries The Path to 9-11, ABC retained a controversial scene that depicts Clinton administration officials declining to authorize the CIA to capture Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, despite the fact that the scene is contradicted by the 9-11 Commission report, on which the network originally claimed the film was based. http://mediamatters.org/items/200609110001 Mon, 11 Sep 2006 01:46:30 EST ABC/Disney 9-11 film also gets facts wrong about dead FBI agent, American Airlines http://mediamatters.org/items/200609100001 http://mediamatters.org/items/200609100001 Sun, 10 Sep 2006 14:59:28 EST ABC all over the map on The Path to 9/11: "locked and ready to air"; not "final"; "get[s] it right"; "fictionalized" http://mediamatters.org/items/200609090001 ABC has issued a number of different, even conflicting statements as it has promoted -- and subsequently defended -- the miniseries The Path to 9/11. http://mediamatters.org/items/200609090001 Fri, 8 Sep 2006 20:21:16 EST ABC's 9-11 miniseries under intense fire from journalists, conservatives http://mediamatters.org/items/200609080007 http://mediamatters.org/items/200609080007 Fri, 8 Sep 2006 14:20:56 EST Tell Disney and ABC to stop playing partisan politics with 9-11 http://mediamatters.org/items/200609080005 http://mediamatters.org/items/200609080005 Fri, 8 Sep 2006 14:04:26 EST ABC statement on The Path to 9/11 claimed film not final, called attacks "premature and irresponsible" -- despite prior National Press Club screening, copies to conservatives http://mediamatters.org/items/200609080001 ABC Entertainment released a statement regarding its "docudrama" The Path to 9/11 stating that "[n]o one has seen the final version of the film ... so criticisms of film specifics are premature and irresponsible." But ABC reportedly screened the film at the National Press Club and provided preview copies to conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh and a number of right-wing bloggers. http://mediamatters.org/items/200609080001 Thu, 7 Sep 2006 20:05:29 EST The (Disney) mouse doesn't scare the (GOP) elephant http://mediamatters.org/items/200609070008 http://mediamatters.org/items/200609070008 Thu, 7 Sep 2006 17:52:22 EST