The following is a copy of my letter to Robert A. Iger - President of Walt Disney - ABC.
I highly suggest that you contact Iger via e-mail and phone at Disney.
A simple way to email him is by going to the Act for Change website and using their form. You may use my letter if you wish.
To: Robert A. Iger - President and CEO, The Walt Disney Company
Subject: "docudrama" Path to 9/11
Date: 09-06-06
Re: Request for termination of broadcast
Dear Mr. Iger:
We already know that screening copies of your upcoming docudrama “The Path to 9/11″ were sent to a host of far-right pundits, broadcasters, and bloggers — and that not only was no effort made to provide copies to moderates and liberal bloggers, but that requests for copies have been turned down because of a supposed “lack of supplies” (which, of course, is nonsense…. it would take very little effort to create additional copies from existing ones.) This, in and of itself, raises serious questions about the integrity of what is being promoted as an “unbiased” look at why 9-11 happened.
We also know that the writer and director of Path to 9-11 is well known as a staunch political conservative, and that while the GOP co-chair of the 9-11 commission (Tom Kean) acted as an advisor on the film, the Democratic Co-Chair (Lee Hamilton) was not asked to provide input.
Now that Richard Clarke — National Security Advisor to four Presidents, and currently a National Security Consultant for ABC News — has described as pure lies (http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/05/clarke-blasts-abc/) a key scene in the ABC docudrama “Path to 9/11″, it is incumbent upon you to pull this biased screed from your schedule immediately.
Should you choose not to do so, I would like a list of the advertisers/sponsors of this program immediately, so that they can be informed of the highly politicized nature of this program, and the strong possibility that they will be subjected to an economic boycott should they not withdraw their support. Clearly, failure to disclose the names of the sponsors of this program would be violation of your fiduciary duties to the stockholders of ABC, insofar as these companies are likely to be extremely angry with ABC for its failure to provide them with the means to avoid a boycott of their products and services by tens of millions of Americans.
Furthermore, I will certainly contact the stockholders of ABC and notify them of this request and your failure to respond.
Further more, I am putting you on notice that I will contact the appropriate members of the US Congress to demand an investigation into the production process for this film: development, (license to the executive production entity, the writers of treatment, story and script,) the production, (directors and producers,) post-production, (editors,) and advertising, (advertising executives and agencies, and advertising entities themselves,) involved in the production and distribution of this production.
yours,
Michael O'McCarthy
