Would this fit in to the "Go Bush!!!1!!!" category?
This does cross a line for me, teach the kids the way things really happened without the politics. It is too bad that politics is almost a better money unit than the "In God We Trust" type.
Of course, we can always let the kids learn that communist China is a great place.....
I am trying to remember how we were steered 20-25 years ago in school. What fallacies were taught to me, other than there are nine planets in the solar system? I know that there are others I am just hoping I have become jaded eough to have unlearned them...
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What's the big deal? Many textbooks, especially history textbooks, are biased in one way or another. They either lean to the left or the right, depending on the area, what the school board chooses as the ciriculum, and who teaches it. Though if its any cosolation, I'm pretty sure many students won't care.
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But I WANT to study Chinese language & culture...
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Coincidence that the target auidence would be ready to vote in the next presidential election, I'm sure.
As to it's accuracy- Clinton's administration surely does bear some of the responsibility for both ignoring Bin laden as a threat and in not responding to the USS Cole attack. As is the (incoming) Bush administration.
But it's more impportant to remember that the onlt people responsible for the actual attacks were the terrorists themselves- anything else is armchair quarterbacking. It's also important to remember that Bush's stated aim after 9/11: to bring the terrorists responsible to justice and to eliminate Al Queda have not been followed up on very well.
Not when we have to fuck off in Iraq anyway...
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quote:Originally posted by Shik: But I WANT to study Chinese language & culture...
Meaning.... you want to read the take-out menu and hook up with Zhang Ziyi?
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That, too.
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CNN's coverage of the ABC TV miniseries of this fantasy version of what happened is being disected at the top of each hour- some highlights:
Re-enactments of a CIA team being sent to eliminate Bin Laden after the embassay bombings (Clinton Administration) only to be recalled at the last minute by a Clinton official, just as the operatives literally have Bin Laden in their sights! Of course, that never happened in any way- no operation ever existed, it was only proposed. Another nuggett is a scene wherein Madylene Allbright warns the Pakistani PM about an incoming missile attack by the US- which gets to Bin laden somehow, allowing him to escape certain death. In reality, Allbright called the PM after the missiles were allready in the air- there's no way it could have tipped off Bin Laden.
It's also noteworthy that ABC used only one member of the 9/11 commision as an "unpaid source" while not even asking the other (read: Democrats) members of the comission for their assistance. Pretty shady. Why do I think the Republicans will be droppng a lot of money ABC's way? ...for ...er....advertizing, of course!
Sadly, only a token mention of the "scholastic" version of this "docudrama" was touched on. It seems that the "scholastic" version is based on the docudrama. That's a lot like teaching a WWII course based on events on the movie U-571. Close enough to realiry for some...
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It's a win-win situation: it airs unchanged, then everyone ends up thinking the Demoncrats caused 9/11. It airs changed, or not at all, and it's proof positive that the Liberal Media Elite are keeping the Truth from the American public.
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What's a few Repubican-inserted lies here and there when they have Harvey Kietel starring!?!
If only they could have cast Johnny Depp, ABC could have made a scene with Clinton ordering the 9/11 attacks and taking a payoff from Bin Laden... Now that'd be entertainment!
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quote:Originally posted by Lee: It's a win-win situation: it airs unchanged, then everyone ends up thinking the Demoncrats caused 9/11. It airs changed, or not at all, and it's proof positive that the Liberal Media Elite are keeping the Truth from the American public.
I believe the correct term is kobayashi maru.
I still don't see what the big deal is. ABC pulled a similar stunt with the bird flu. They had this atrocious movie which made it seem like we were all gonna die of bird flu. They're just pulling a page from the Yellow Journalism book. People will see through the bullshit in this movie like they saw through the bullshit in the bird-flu movie. So just relax,it's a free(er)nation, and they can say what they want even if it's dribble.
And Scholastic...well I recall an article in Consumer Reports which criticized them for putting not so hidden commercial messages in their children's magazine. I think the commercials were for Parkay Margarine.
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The big deal is that packaging political propaganda (not just slanted texts, but actual factual distortions, ie. LIES) as "educational material" and teaching it in any classroom in any free nation is a crime of falsifying history that should not ever be tolerated for any reason, and least of all because students "won't care" about not being told the truth.
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As to the Bird Flu movie, so many people called their doctors/bosses/hospitals after it aired that Fed-Ex printed a fact sheet on the "possible epidemic" for it's thousands of employees. I heard UPS did the same. I fondy recall when we were all going to die from SARS....ah, those were the good ol' days...
Remember, something like 30% of Americans are still under the notion that Iraq was (somehow) behind the 9/11 attacks.
The masses are asses and they believe whatever they're told by their favorite celebrities. (which explains how Arnold is running California)
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Saw the first part tonight. Enjoyed it. Good production values. Hasty disclaimer shoved in at the end. It'll probably con (-vince? -fuse?) a lot of people.
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With the lack of attention most students pay to their work at school, who will actually LEARN that anyway? Please, most kids today are Thermians.
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