the reprehensible part of the 9/11 movie debacle

…isn’t the movie—I’ve discussed this ad nauseam [click here to see the entire category: I've been following the story for weeks]. It’s a stupid TV movie, as Roger Simon notes, and I’ve been saying all along.
The really gross part is that Scholastic (publishers of Harry Potter) promoted this made-for-television crap as a teaching tool, conferring a sort of historical legitimacy on a questionable dramatization (fiction!) of events we have barely digested, much less completely understood:

On the fifth anniversary of 9/11, The Path to 9/11 (an ABC miniseries that details the historical events leading up to 9/11, beginning with the 1993 World Trade Center bombing) will air as a nationwide broadcast. This dramatization of events is based on The 9/11 Commission Report, published in July 2004. Created by Congress and President Bush, the 9/11 Commission was a bipartisan group charged with providing an account of the events surrounding 9/11 and recommendations for preventing future attacks.

The Path to 9/11 offers your students and their families important information regarding the causes of and events leading to that tragic day. Encourage your students and their families to watch The Path to 9/11 and use the accompanying Resources and Discussion Guide pages

These quotes were salvaged by Dan Riehl after Scholastic removed links to its promotional materials from its website (after it determined that the materials it had offered weren’t up to snuff).

I don’t care who is blamed for 9/11 by this idiotic movie. I do care about the shameful peddling and promotion of infotainment by an “educational publisher.” Surely Scholastic could have found some worth documentaries to promote if it was interested in helping teachers teach current events.