Jennifer Nix

Update: The Nation is reporting that Disney’s Robert Iger is "deeply troubled" about the right-wing agenda of the "Path to 9/11." So, yank it, Bob. Yank it.   On this anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, the National Press Club played host to no less than three press conferences about the work of the 9/11 Commission, with the Commission’s Democratic [...]

Update below  Despite the vociferous and righteous public outcry against ABC’s "Path to 9/11" docudrama, it still appears that Disney honcho Robert Iger is choosing to air a politicized and inaccurate account of our great American tragedy. This travesty of a film, which is being fronted by only the Republican 9/11 Commission co-chair Thomas Kean (who’s now making [...]

Remember that Commandment, Cyrus Nowrasteh and David Cunningham? Boys, how do you square up all those contradictory notions competing in your heads? Let me see if I can get it straight. You love Jesus so much that you want to transform Hollywood from within, to fill television and film with His messages, which I assume [...]

It’s been a heck of a week. Consider that it was only last Friday that we learned ABC was planning to broadcast its fictional, yet "based on the 9/11 Commission Report" docudrama, because Rush Limbaugh and all of wing-nuttery were singing the praises of "The Path to 9/11." I wonder what horrific end ABC is [...]

The folks at Think Progress and Eschaton are reporting that ABC is not only refusing to provide advance copies of "The Path to 9/11" mini-series to progressive bloggers like yours truly, but to–jaw drop–President Clinton , Sandy Berger and Madeleine Albright.  Oh, they can get it to Rush Limbaugh, and a host of right-wing blogs [...]

  Fifteen minutes before ABC convened a conference call about “The Path to 9/11,” I finally got an email answer to my request to be allowed on the group media call with 9/11 Commission Co-Chair, Thomas Kean. I’d only been requesting this reply since…Friday. Here’s what I got back from Jonathan Hogan: Hi there,  We [...]

(Don’t forget — you can spread the word to journalists about this using the Spotlight function, located at the bottom of every post or here — JH) ABC is clearly feeling some heat over their fictionalized drama, “The Path to 9/11,” set to air on September 10th and 11th. After pulling the public blog from [...]

  Upon learning Friday from ThinkProgress that Rush Limbaugh was shilling for the ABC docudrama, “The Path to 9/11,” which will air on ABC on September 10th and 11th, I smelled something rotten emanating from the Mickey Mouse Network.  Having worked at Variety years back, I got out the old Rolodex and started making calls [...]

  As many of you know, I recently lived out every publisher’s fantasy. I got to call Glenn Greenwald and tell him that his book, How Would a Patriot Act? would debut this week on the New York Times list. This ranking, in and of itself, is not what rocks my world. The prestige factor [...]

  From the one-for-the-good-guys-department: Bloomberg reports that FCC Chairman Kevin Martin has ordered a probe of dozens of television stations, for airing advertisements as if they were vetted news reports. Martin’s stellar move to ferret out fake news offenders comes one month after the indefatigable folks at the Center for Media and Democracy issued a [...]