"Surveying the smoking ruin that is ABC's reputation after the 'The Path to 9/11' debacle, it's hard to know whether you're looking at the consequence of unadulterated folly or of a calculated
strategy that turned out to be too clever by half." That's the opinion of Tim Rutten in the
Los Angeles Times. Of course, it probably doesn't make much difference, because the controversy
surrounding the network's "docu-dramatic" re-creation is a self-inflicted wound. Whether ABC attempted to paint itself as a champion of free speech or just misunderstood, Rutten notes that the
network thought that it could approach the biggest American tragedy since Pearl Harbor with the "the sort of ad hoc ethics that would make a streetwalker blush..."
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