Michael Moore is a documentarian in about the same way that Rush Limbaugh is a journalist.
They’re comedians. Just like documentarians and journalists, they work with facts. But Moore and Limbaugh each have a target market. Facts are something to be carefully selected, pruned, clipped, twisted and distorted, if necessary, to make that target audience laugh, clap, cheer, and feel good about themselves and their prejudices. Neither is interested in getting to the bottom of things. Neither wants to dig out the real truth. It’s just not their job.
Still, I’m sorry to see the Walt Disney Co. blocking the release of Moore’s new film, Fahrenheit 9/11. Coming right on the heels of Sinclair Broadcast Group’s blackout of ABC News’ Nightline program last week, I’m starting to worry about giant corporations playing nanny, and deciding which facts or ideas we’re permitted to hear.
It worries me. Even if Michael Moore is a clown.
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