Dave Winer and others are busy linking to this Lawrence Lessig blog post in which Lessig charges hypocrisy when it comes to protesting against made-for-TV docudramas,
Ok, so NBC produces a show about Private Lynch. She says the story is not true. But nonetheless, NBC runs the show. CBS produces a show about Ronald Reagan. The man who Would Save Reagan from TV and others say it is biased against Reagan. CBS cancels the show.
Apparently it is ok to bend the truth, but only in one way.
Except that Dr. Lessig himself is the one bending the truth here. In the article he links to, Jessica Lynch doesn’t say that the NBC movie is not true. What the story says is that,
Lynch told Sawyer she does not remember seeing the lawyer, Mohammed Odeh al-Rehaief, who is the focus of a TV movie that is being made without her participation. But if he did help her, she said, she is grateful.
Apparently it is ok to bend the truth, but only in one way.