‘Daily Show’: The Eerily Familiar ABC Debate

Staff / Truthdig Aug 21, 2007 "The Daily Show's" custom-made moniker for Sunday's Democratic debate, "Clusterf@#k to the White House," perfectly captured the skewed spirit of ABC's déjà-vu-inducing coverage of this latest Q & A session with the left-leaning presidential candidates -- or at least with Sens. Clinton and Obama -- as a "bored" fly alighted on Sen. Chris Dodd's shellacked hairdo. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Two ABC Journalists Slain in Baghdad

Staff / Truthdig May 20, 2007 Two more members of the news media have sacrificed their lives covering the Iraq war. Cameraman Alaa Uldeen Aziz and sound technician Saif Laith Yousuf, both Iraqi journalists working for ABC in Baghdad, were abducted Thursday and found dead at the city morgue Friday, according to an ABC executive. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Fox News Resurrects ‘Path to 9/11’ Propaganda

Staff / Truthdig Jan 27, 2007 Fox News intends to broadcast unaired footage from ABC's propagandistic miniseries "The Path to 9/11." The scene in question, which suggested that Sandy Berger rejected a proposal to assassinate Osama bin Laden, was toned down after the series' wild inaccuracies and political motivations led to a national firestorm. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Air America Blacklisted

Staff / Truthdig Nov 1, 2006 An ABC Radio Networks internal memo lists almost 100 companies, including FedEx, McDonald's and Microsoft, that refuse to have their ads run during Air America programming. (h/t: Think Progress) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

ABC’s Halperin Woos Conservatives

Staff / Truthdig Oct 31, 2006 During interviews with Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity, ABC News' political director Mark Halperin said that the weeks before the election offer a chance for the mainstream media to prove that they understand conservatives' grievances. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Bush Backpedals on ‘Stay the Course’

Staff / Truthdig Oct 23, 2006 UPDATE: Check out a better video version The president is rewriting history again, this time on ABC's "This Week," where he told George Stephanopoulos: "Well, hey, listen, we've never been 'stay the course,' George We have been -- we will complete the mission" (Video & Transcript). Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

ABC Mulls Yanking 9/11 Miniseries, Says Variety

Staff / Truthdig Sep 8, 2006 Under growing pressure from politicians, bloggers, pundits and letter-writing concerned citizens, ABC/Disney is considering pulling its historically flawed Sept. 11 miniseries "The Path to 9/11," according to Variety. Go, net roots! Updates: Scholastic withdraws support, won't distribute movie materials to schools The Senate leadership threatens Disney with legal sanctions Watch conservative pundit Bill Bennett denounce the film Watch a conservative 9/11 book author slam the miniseries' inaccuracies, too Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Keitel: 9/11 Undocu-Drama Should Be Changed

Staff / Truthdig Sep 8, 2006 Harvey Keitel, who stars in ABC?s upcoming 9/11-themed miniseries, appeared on CNN?s ?Showbiz Tonight? to relate his own concerns over the project?s manipulation of history. When asked if a work derived from 9/11 held a special obligation to the truth, Keitel responded: ?Absolutely, you cannot cross the line from a conflation of events to a distortion of the event. No. Where we have distorted something we have made a mistake?and that should be corrected.? Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

The ‘Path’ to a Distorted 9/11

Staff / Truthdig Sep 7, 2006 Several progressive bloggers have set up an online clearinghouse dedicated to exposing the fabrications in ABC/Disney?s upcoming miniseries "The Path to 9/11" It urges ABC/Disney to scrub the film of outright falsehoods, or else shelve the film completely UPDATE # 1: ABC makes some minor changes to the film (much more after the jump). Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

9/11 Panelist Slams ABC?s Fib-U-Drama

Staff / Truthdig Sep 7, 2006 On Wednesday?s ?Countdown,? 9/11 commissioner Richard Ben-Veniste, above, added his voice to those criticizing ABC?s credibility-challenged 9/11 ?docudrama,? saying: ?It was quite clear, as the 9/11 commission report states, that Clinton authorized the CIA and the American forces to get Bin Laden?capture or kill?and this miniseries does not depict it accurately.? Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Top Former Counter-Terror Official Blasts ABC 9/11 Docudrama

Staff / Truthdig Sep 6, 2006 Roger Cressey, a top counter-terrorism official to Bush II and Clinton, called ABC's upcoming miniseries "The Path to 9/11" something "straight out of Disney and fantasyland. It?s factually wrong. And that?s shameful.? Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Bloggers Rage Over ABC/Disney 9/11 Miniseries

Staff / Truthdig Sep 6, 2006 ABC is planning to air a six-hour ?docudrama? on the fifth anniversary of 9/11 that lays the lion?s share of the blame for the Sept. 11 attacks on President Clinton. The progressive blogosphere is in a rage -- as evidenced by the satirical photo above -- over perceived bias on the part of the filmmakers and ABC/Disney. (Check out the controversy.) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )