"I got to see the face of man frozen in confusion as he tried to read a book while the country he was sworn to protect was under attack. This segment of video wasn't available on national news media."
Everyone must admit this is nothing of note.
"I got to see the real alienation of black voters in the 2000 elections and the anger and outrage it brought out in them as they protested during Bush's inauguration and the courageous black Congressmen and women tried to protest during House's verification of the electoral vote. That wasn't freely available on network news."
Again little to do with anything. If people who lighter skin is replaced with "black voter" and/or "black Congressmen" would this have any significant?
In other words, Moore is playing the race card. Yawn.
"I learned a great deal about the incredible weaving of connections between Bush's family and Saudi oil royalty including extensive involvements with the Bin Ladens. Nobody on network news explored those facts."
You claim you learned a lot, but you provided nothing that indicates this. It's well known there are connections between any former president with Saudi Arabia. And it's well known Bin Ladens were rich and large family involved various construction deals in the kingdom and elsewhere.
So unless you or others were not aware of these general facts, you haven't indicated anything in particular of note.
"I got to look into the eyes of Bush's staff during times when they spoke thinking they were out of the media spotlight and see the utter disregard these creatures had for the rest of us. I'm afraid the network news seemed to lose these snippets and only give us the prepared stuff."
And this is just utter nonsense.
"Need I go on? I won't because I could write a book about what I learned and I don't have that kind of energy after 3 hours of racquetball. It embarrassed me that I had been spoon-fed the watered down crap our network news organizations dumped on us and I even partially bought into it."
Look, if Moore film finally got you to understand that the news media are not doing as they claim they are doing "keeping the public informed", then I suppose you learned one thing from this film.
But even "they say", "if it bleeds it leads" that "man bites dog" is a story, and that their mission is to change political policy- it's all about pushing their various chosen agendas. And finally that they are in the entertainment business and it's all about ratings [money].
Now, considering general public opinion of the "news", this is hardly some earth shattering revelation- but if you finally get it and you required to see it in Moore's film, then I guess it was important film for you to see.
re: Wow
The whole thread (56 posts)
- Michael Moore rips Wolf Blitzer a new one
- That was great!
- Great vid
- Whatever
- "Puny facts! Moore SMASH!"
- Larry King debate
- re: Michael Moore rips Wolf Blitzer a new one
- re: Michael Moore rips Wolf Blitzer a new one
- What I learned
- re: What I learned
- How does that follow from what Az wrote? (n/t)
- I really have no dog in this fight........
- Wow
- re: Wow
- BTW Geoff...have you SEEN Michael Moore's documentary on 9/11? (n/t)
- "Everyone must admit this is nothing of note."
- re: Wow
- re: What I learned
- What I learned
- re: Michael Moore rips Wolf Blitzer a new one
