ABC's 9/11 miniseries eclipsed by football
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For all the political furor it   generated before its broadcast, the debut of ABC's miniseries   "The Path to 9/11" ended up eclipsed by a football game.
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Marketers and the news media are still struggling with the fine line between commemorating and exploiting the 9/11 attacks.
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The historic New England  Patriots-New York Giants game pushed past this year's  Patriots-Indianapolis Colts thriller to become the most-watched  regular-season NFL telecast since 1995.
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What a difference a decade and a pair of Super Bowl championships makes. It was only a decade ago when the Patriots regularly drew the bottom-tier announcers at whichever network was airing their games.
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ABC aired an inaccurate tale of how the 9/11 ringleader Mohammed Atta bought his ticket in its dramatic mini-series ÂThe Path to 9/11,Â even after complaints surfaced.
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By now, most of us can agree that ABC&#39;s &quot;Monday Night Football&quot; opening was lasciviously over-the-top, a crass effort at cross-promotion and titillation.
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By Rick Bird  It's believed a dozen or so CBS affiliates will not air the remarkable documentary "9/11" at 8 p.m. Sunday, worried about the expletives uttered in some of the footage.
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The sound contradicted the image. Sure, Paul Atallah was watching a football game on TV, and sure, it was 1 o'clock in the morning, when the senses can get mischievous. But the thuds he was hearing didn't match the action he was seeing. Even the most ferocious tackle doesn't echo like that; as a longtime football player, Atallah knew that ...
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By DAVID BAUDER  NEW YORK - TV news revisited the horror of Sept. 11 on Monday by replaying long stretches of coverage from that day as the events unfolded before a nation's eyes.
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The Sept. 11 hijackers should be  understood as human beings, the makers of a controversial  television drama that charts their story said on Thursday.
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Amid an election-year debate over  who can best defend America, U.S. congressional Democrats urged  ABC on Thursday to cancel a TV miniseries about the September  11 attacks that is critical of former Democratic President Bill  Clinton and his top aides.
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ABC defended a miniseries on the events leading up to the Sept. 11 attacks after Clinton administration officials said it distorts history so drastically that it should be corrected or shelved.
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NBC and ABC are developing miniseries revolving around the Sept. 11 attacks, using the "9/11 Commission Report" as the blueprint for dramatic retellings of the events that led to the devastating strikes on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
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ÂThe Path to 9/11Â is an unsparing, and at times hyperbolic, portrait of bureaucratic turf wars, buck passing and complacency.
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By DAVID BAUDER  NEW YORK - ABC, still trying to deal with angry former Clinton administration officials about their Sept. 11 miniseries, was also faced Friday with a request from President Bush to interrupt the film for a speech.
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The ABC network on Sunday debuted a  newly edited version of its controversial miniseries about  events leading up to the September 11 attacks, toning down  parts that drew the most fire from leading Democrats who called  the film propaganda.
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The marquee matchup that  opened NBC's regular-season "Sunday Night Football" prevailed  in an unusually strong night of television highlighted by  9/11-related programming and premieres of Fox's sitcom lineup.