My letter to Steve Jobs about "Path to 9/11"
Fri Sep 08, 2006 at 02:35:34 PM PDT
I need to start by saying that I have been to Disney World at least 20 times in my life (for perspective, I am 34 years old and have lived in the Midwest my entire life). I own just about every Disney Film, have listened to every Disney song, and few if any memories related to Disney, prior to this week, filled me with anything other than a sort of basking tranquility.
Well, with the recent events involving the pending ABC mockumentery, I felt I needed to share my perspective with the primary shareholder of the House of Mouse. My letter to Steve Jobs is reproduced below.
Dear Mr. Jobs:
I remember watching "Pirates of Silicon Valley" and being amazed at how
much of the story the producers of that movie simply made up,
particularly about you.
Now, I am amazed again at how ABC, a major television network, owned by
the company in which you are the largest shareholder, is poised to
broadcast "Path to 9/11", a program with similar doses of fiction but
with a much more grave and disturbing purpose.
I cannot imagine that you were pleased by the way "Pirates"
misrepresented your life and achievements. I similarly cannot imagine
that you would want to be associated with a program whose apparent
misrepresentation of events effecting all Americans is so striking. I
urge you to take action to prevent this from happening.
The snarky among us would say, "but he'll never see it."
My response is: "But I've got Daily Kos to Broadcast it"
Simple. To the Point. Repeat, Kossacks.