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From: Maia Cheli-Colando <maia>
Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2006 07:28:35 -0700
Curiouser and curiouser.
> ABC, still trying to deal with angry former Clinton administration
> officials about their Sept. 11 miniseries, was also faced Friday with
> a request from President Bush to interrupt the film for a speech.
>
> The president has asked broadcast networks to clear time for an
> address to the nation Monday at 9:01 p.m., or at the start of the last
> hour of "The Path to 9/11" on the East Coast.
and
> A group of historians, including Arthur Schlesinger Jr. and Princeton
> University's Sean Wilentz, wrote to ABC parent Walt Disney Co. CEO
> Robert Iger on Friday, urging him to scrap the series. They said that
> permitting inaccuracies to heighten drama is "disingenuous and dangerous."
>
> "A responsible broadcast network should have nothing to do with the
> falsification of history, except to expose it," they wrote.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2006/09/08/entertainment/e141858D71.DTL
I thought the last line was interesting. Do children's literature publishers have mission statements for selecting and editing historical material? Okay, there goes my nonprofit background speaking perhaps... but I'm curious as to whether publishers use mission statements for guidance, and if so, what one might look like in terms of representing history. What should a book about 9/11 do, or not do?
Maia
Received on Sat 09 Sep 2006 09:28:35 AM CDT
Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2006 07:28:35 -0700
Curiouser and curiouser.
> ABC, still trying to deal with angry former Clinton administration
> officials about their Sept. 11 miniseries, was also faced Friday with
> a request from President Bush to interrupt the film for a speech.
>
> The president has asked broadcast networks to clear time for an
> address to the nation Monday at 9:01 p.m., or at the start of the last
> hour of "The Path to 9/11" on the East Coast.
and
> A group of historians, including Arthur Schlesinger Jr. and Princeton
> University's Sean Wilentz, wrote to ABC parent Walt Disney Co. CEO
> Robert Iger on Friday, urging him to scrap the series. They said that
> permitting inaccuracies to heighten drama is "disingenuous and dangerous."
>
> "A responsible broadcast network should have nothing to do with the
> falsification of history, except to expose it," they wrote.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2006/09/08/entertainment/e141858D71.DTL
I thought the last line was interesting. Do children's literature publishers have mission statements for selecting and editing historical material? Okay, there goes my nonprofit background speaking perhaps... but I'm curious as to whether publishers use mission statements for guidance, and if so, what one might look like in terms of representing history. What should a book about 9/11 do, or not do?
Maia
Received on Sat 09 Sep 2006 09:28:35 AM CDT
