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From: Maia Cheli-Colando <maia>
Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2006 08:48:39 -0700
The following was in the PW Daily this morning -- anybody seen the series yet?
Maia
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Scholastic Dodges 9/11 Miniseries Backlash
<http://email.publishersweekly.com/cgi-bin2/DM/y/hsDS0MKGOp0OYa0CxD50EO> by Rachel Deahl While ABC was taking a drubbing in the blogosphere for its upcoming miniseries about the events leading up to September 11, Scholastic was apparently hard at work recasting its association with the docudrama. After /The Path to 9/11/ generated an outcry from liberal bloggers and then, yesterday, Bill Clinton publicly condemned the series for historical inaccuracies?the crux of the left wing's anger stems from fictional scenes that lay blame for the attacks on the Clinton's administration?Scholastic pulled an educational guide tied to the series that went up on its Web site August 28. In a statement, publisher, chairman, president and CEO Dick Robinson said: "After a thorough review of the original guide that we offered online to about 25,000 high school teachers, we determined that the materials did not meet our high standards for dealing with controversial issues."
Working through the night, apparently, to put up something in its place, Scholastic has created an alternative guide that, appropriately (if ironically), deals with issues of media literacy, posing such questions to students as: "What is a docudrama and how does it differ from a documentary?" and "What are the differences between factual reporting and a dramatization?"
Scholastic's new guide is now live on Scholastic's site at www.scholastic.com/medialiteracy
<http://email.publishersweekly.com/cgi-bin2/DM/y/hsDS0MKGOp0OYa0CxD80ER>. Kyle Good, Scholastic's v-p of corporate communications, called the new work "a much better discussion guide for teachers," adding that the original material, and now its replacement, were not sponsored by ABC. Driving that point home, the company's release about the swap states that Scholastic "had no involvement with developing the ABC docudrama, and that the company is not promoting the program."
Received on Fri 08 Sep 2006 10:48:39 AM CDT
Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2006 08:48:39 -0700
The following was in the PW Daily this morning -- anybody seen the series yet?
Maia
***********************************************
Scholastic Dodges 9/11 Miniseries Backlash
<http://email.publishersweekly.com/cgi-bin2/DM/y/hsDS0MKGOp0OYa0CxD50EO> by Rachel Deahl While ABC was taking a drubbing in the blogosphere for its upcoming miniseries about the events leading up to September 11, Scholastic was apparently hard at work recasting its association with the docudrama. After /The Path to 9/11/ generated an outcry from liberal bloggers and then, yesterday, Bill Clinton publicly condemned the series for historical inaccuracies?the crux of the left wing's anger stems from fictional scenes that lay blame for the attacks on the Clinton's administration?Scholastic pulled an educational guide tied to the series that went up on its Web site August 28. In a statement, publisher, chairman, president and CEO Dick Robinson said: "After a thorough review of the original guide that we offered online to about 25,000 high school teachers, we determined that the materials did not meet our high standards for dealing with controversial issues."
Working through the night, apparently, to put up something in its place, Scholastic has created an alternative guide that, appropriately (if ironically), deals with issues of media literacy, posing such questions to students as: "What is a docudrama and how does it differ from a documentary?" and "What are the differences between factual reporting and a dramatization?"
Scholastic's new guide is now live on Scholastic's site at www.scholastic.com/medialiteracy
<http://email.publishersweekly.com/cgi-bin2/DM/y/hsDS0MKGOp0OYa0CxD80ER>. Kyle Good, Scholastic's v-p of corporate communications, called the new work "a much better discussion guide for teachers," adding that the original material, and now its replacement, were not sponsored by ABC. Driving that point home, the company's release about the swap states that Scholastic "had no involvement with developing the ABC docudrama, and that the company is not promoting the program."
Received on Fri 08 Sep 2006 10:48:39 AM CDT
