Propaganda is propaganda. I have little respect
for those who supported one and now condemn
another: what’s good for the goose and all that. I’m not much
happier with those who condemned the first as propaganda
and fiction and now celebrate a more convenient fictionalization.
Both were distributed by Disney (one by Miramax, one by ABC). Both
are labelled as docudramas or dramatizations. Both caricature
otherwise defensible positions—that President Clinton should have
done more to stop particular Islamic terrorists in the eight and a
half years between February 26, 1993 and September 11, 2001, including
military strikes against those terrorists senior generals; and that
President Bush has pursued a number of goals more related to
authoritarian control than to defense of America.
Neither is a reasonable basis for a discussion of the course of our
nation. Neither is a useful text for national dialogue. They are
interesting only as artifacts of our polarized political culture and
of the regrettable merger of public-service news and public circuses
into that gibbering beast called The Media.
Update: Whoever generated this trailer for 9/11 is presenting it
as the "official true story". It looks like that’s ABC.
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