PBS Newshour on "The Path to 9/11": A Bad Idea From The Start

Whether or not you are a fan of The PBS Newshour, in my opinion what they do better than any other major news broadcast (at times) is bring academic experts on to talk about issues of public policy and civic affairs. This is what the Newshour did last night, when Michael Delli Carpini, Dean of the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communication, and Robert Thompson, Founding Director of The Blyer Center for Television and Popular Culture at Syracuse University, discussed the intersection of news and entertainment as represented by "The Path to 9/11".

The bottom line of both of these people - who are able to place this mini-series in the context of all such movies - is that "The Path to 9/11" was a bad idea from the start. Now is not the time for anyone to be making "docudramas" about what lead up to the 9/11 attack. But please watch the entire discussion. Their analysis is quite thorough.

(NOTE: This analysis was not meant to get into the details of specifically who was behind the making of this mini-series. But it does get into the subject of people having political agendas when they make movies of this type. For a thorough analysis of the people behind the making of "The Path to 9/11", I recommend the excellent reporting of Max Blumenthal here on the HuffPost.

Because YouTube limits videos to 10 minutes or less, I split the roughly 13 minute segment into two parts.

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