Will Michael Moore have to do the work of the media?

[veracity]

Will we have to wait for documentaries like Fahrenheit 9/11 to get the truth about the Bush administration that the media refuses to report? Check this out and find out what we all can do about it....

MEDIA MALPRACTICE 9/11

THE ABYSMAL VACUUM
FILLED BY THE MIGHTY MICHAEL MOORE
TvNewsLIES.org - July - 2004


Never before in history has journalism so blatantly abandoned its traditional role as the watchdog of government. Never before has a spirited film maker so brilliantly stepped in to fill the abhorrent vacuum created by the corporate media.

Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11 became the first documentary to top $100 million at the US box office. Today, people are still flocking to their local movie theaters to discover disturbing facts about their president and his personal interests in the ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. But today, the stories unearthed in the Moore film continue to be ignored, unreported and uninvestigated by the news networks of the American corporate media.

Never before in history has journalism so blatantly abandoned its traditional role as the watchdog of government. Never before has a spirited film maker so brilliantly stepped in to fill the abhorrent vacuum created by the corporate media. And never before has such vital, incriminating, and shocking information about their leaders been revealed to the public on a motion picture screen. What a damning stain this leaves on the integrity of American news reporting. And what a shameful legacy it will leave in the historic annals of these times.

Some of us knew. We knew about the Bush family and the bin Ladens. We knew about Halliburton and the Carlyle Group. We knew about the pipeline negotiations with the Taliban, and we knew about the PNAC warmongers. And some of us knew about the terrible casualties, both military and civilian, of the Bush wars. But most Americans did not. They had no clue.

From the first days of the Bush administration, the Internet was rife with alternative news sources that raised the issues, documented the truth, and exposed the culprits. It was the corporate media that turned its back and cowered in deference to the Bush regime. It was the corporate media that withheld, distorted, manipulated and lied outright. It was the corporate media that cheered the push to war as they competed for its coverage and higher ratings. And it was the corporate media, tragically, to which most of the nation turned for its nightly news.

Is this the way of the future? Will we now regularly turn to Michael Moore or other courageous film makers to tell us what we have an inherent right to know about our government? Those people who have viewed Michael Moore’s documentary now know how they were lied to, over and over, on the road to a pre-planned war. That’s good, but it’s not great.

On the brink of the most crucial election in recent American history, the voting public is still being denied the answers to a whole slew of questionable policies and actions of this administration. Will we have to wait for the sequels to Fahrenheit 9/11 in order to get them? It seems that we have no other choice but to await other documentaries if we want to know the truth about these unreported and under-reported stories:

Full article: http://www.tvnewslies.org/html/media_malpractice_9_11.html

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1. MM made the leap

when legions of "journalists" couldn't or wouldn't. The guy deserves a place in history.

[porphyrian]

4. He'll have it...

...and not just for Canadian Bacon anymore.

[cthrumatrix]

2. well if you want "truth"...the answer is clearly yes

[veracity]

5. It's 'yes' - but should we just accept that?

In the meantime, the 'news' networks spew their propaganda and distortions...and the public is hoodwinked, big time. I don't think we just sit back and accept that. That's why the article has suggestions for action. Sitting back is not the way.

[gratuitous]

3. He does their job, but they pick up the paycheck

Of course, now that F911 has gone over $100 million domestic, you have to figure that SOMEONE in SOME studio SOMEWHERE would like a chunk of that kind of action for a documentary (read: low, low production cost). Can greed defeat greed?

[opihimoimoi]

6. F911 can and should become a TREND...Truth SELLS...Big Bucks

Mike proved it.

Others will follow.

So much stuff yet out there and its ongoing.

The bushies have become more than a meal ticket, they become the tool to make money using them as the suject matter.

Michael Moore is now an Icon...spawning tons of wannabees out there. The pubs will go beserk when that happens... which is why they tried so hard to crush the flick.

[gatorboy]

7. It's time for Air America TV! n/t