Powerline writes:
The networks have boycotted footage of the September 11 attacks, because they fear--correctly, I think--that reminders of the destruction wrought by the terrorists' attacks will engender support for the Bush administration.
Jason Zengerle slaps back:
Good lord! Paranoid much? I understand that this sort of conspiratorial drivel gets written on conservative blogs every day, but this example seems particularly rich--because it comes in the context of praising the Arts & Entertainment cable network's film Flight 93. A&E, it should be noted, is a a joint venture of ABC, NBC, and Hearst (two of which, the last time I checked, are networks). So there you have it: the fact that a cable channel owned by two networks has produced and aired a film about 9/11 serves as an occasion to bash those networks for ignoring 9/11. How is that again?
Even better, a subsequent Power Line post hypes the forthcoming commercial film, Flight 93, which begins showing in theatres April. The post doesn't bother to explain how this Flight 93, which was produced by Universal Pictures, could emerge from the very same Hollywood studio system that Power Line in the past has blamed for turning out a "tide of anti-American, anti-military, anti-Bush, anti-conservative, anti-Israel movies."
Finally, the same post mentions Jere Longman's 2002 book Among the Heroes: United Flight 93 and the Passengers and Crew Who Fought Back. Longman, of course, is a reporter for The New York Times, which, in Power Line's view, is the mother ship of the media conspiracy to deny 9/11 and undermine President Bush. Alas, Longman's employer goes unmentioned in the post. I wonder why.
Why Zengerle was reading Powerline remains, however, unexplained.
