Twisting it up, a new pre-midterm elections ABC 9/11 mini-series fictionalizes events around 9/11 scheduled to air Sunday and Monday night, but not with out criticism.

[...] All mini-series Photoshop the facts. “The Path to 9/11” is not a documentary, or even a docu-drama; it is a fictionalized account of what took place. It relies on the report of the Sept. 11 commission, the King James version of all Sept. 11 accounts, as well as other material and memoirs. Some scenes come straight from the writers’ imaginations. Yet any depiction of those times would have to focus on those who were in charge, and by their own accounts mistakes were made. [...]

Laying Blame and Passing the Buck, Dramatized
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/08/arts/television/08path.html
By ALESSANDRA STANLEY in the New York Times
Published: September 8, 2006

+ “Photoshop” the new adjective to describe something that has been retouched, i.e. falsified? Should Adobe rebuke this negative connotation?

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