Earlier this week, we discussed Spike Lee’s interview in the New York Times, which was done to promote his HBO docu-series, NYC Epicenters: 9/11-2021½. Spike focused on September 11th, the day and the aftermath, and combined those stories with New York stories about the pandemic. Spike probably expected the controversy to be about the NYPD and the footage he included about police busting heads during BLM rallies. But during the NYT interview, Spike explained why he included 9/11 “Truthers” in the docu-series. Truthers are people who believe that 9/11 was an inside job, that there’s a massive government conspiracy to cover up blah blah blah. Spike told the NYT that he still has “questions” about how the towers fell, and that’s why he included interviews with Truthers in the series. The outrage and anger has been stewing online for days. And Spike heard it and saw it.

Director Spike Lee is reediting the fourth and final episode of his “NYC Epicenters: 9/11-2021½” docuseries on HBO. The original cut of the episode featured interviews with 9/11 truthers.

“I’m Back In The Editing Room And Looking At The Eighth And Final Chapter Of ‘NYC EPICENTERS 9/11-2021½.’ I Respectfully Ask You To Hold Your Judgement Until You See The FINAL CUT,” Lee said in a statement sent by HBO.

The decision to reedit the episode comes after Lee said in an interview with the New York Times that he still had “questions” about what happened on 9/11. In the original cut distributed to press, the fourth and final episode of the docuseries contained interviews with 9/11 truthers and members of the conspiracy group Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth.

The next two episodes of “NYC Epicenters: 9/11-2021½” will air on HBO on Sunday, Aug. 29, and Sunday, Sept. 5, at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT. The reedited final episode will air on Saturday, Sept. 11, the 20th anniversary of 9/11.

[From Variety]

Can you imagine how disrespectful it would be to the 9/11 families to have the final episodes of a docu-series air on the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks, and have those episodes perpetuate the falsehoods about how the towers fell? This was so poorly done by Spike. He’s smarter than that. HBO is smarter than that. I hate that he’s back in his editing bay, recutting the final episodes to take out some of the crazy sh-t from those Truthers. I hate that he even included them in the first place.

Photos courtesy of Avalon Red.

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By: Kaiser
Title: Spike Lee is re-editing his 9/11 docu-series, hopefully to edit out 9/11 Truthers
Sourced From: www.celebitchy.com/729944/spike_lee_is_re-editing_his_911_docu-series_hopefully_to_edit_out_911_truthers/
Published Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2021 11:00:52 +0000

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