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Bush_Eats_Beef Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-30-04 10:48 AM
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Fox News: F 9/11 not a "documentary" due to "editorializing"
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Fox is really reaching, attempting to take Moore to task for not presenting the clips in F 9/11 "objectively without editorializing without inserting fictional matter."

This is a video clip...to watch it go to the main Fox site (http://www.foxnews.com/index.html), look for "Fox News Access Video" on the right, click "Politics," and select "Moore Propaganda? New movie 'Fahrenheit 9/11' makes a splash around the country, but is it an actual documentary?"

1). Golf course scene: Fox plays the "raw feed," says Bush is talking about Palestinian suicide bombers, not Al Qaeda, so Moore is not "presenting the facts" (WTF?)

2). Bin Laden family flights out of US after 9/11: "flights did not occur until Commercial flight restrictions lifted after September 14th." Newsweek's Michael Isikoff: "A window into some of the facts, but certainly not a complete window into ALL of the facts"

3). Bill Wheatley, VP of NBC News: "The work of filmmakers is much more likely to be pointed in a particular direction...filmmakers tend to avoid balance and pursue a particular point of view"

The dictionary definition of "propaganda" is read at the end of the clip, so that the audience can "decide" if it is a more fitting definition of the film.
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