F911 makes the Media "look bad "as well -- another reason to see it.

[cthrumatrix]

Middle America working two jobs making ends meet may have no idea of how biased our corporate owned media has become. The jaundiced coverage they received for a number of key issues is made clear in F911.

The media is part of the "TPTB" that put Bush in power and provide a "pass" for this war and many other issues we debate everyday here at DU.

Where was the media on:
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* election 2000 follow-up
* medicare reform bill
* asking tough questions on WMD and Iraq war
* free pass on Patriot ACT
* FBI whistle blowers (Sibel Edmonds)
* accountability of $$$ spent on Iraq (first $87B...1/2 not known)
* much more.

The fact is the media allows all of this to happen. Corporations and the TPTB cannot like what is happening. It's about time.

[Proud_Lefty]

1. Absolutely

People depend and expect the media to pay attention and ask the hard questions. This media is clearly bought off. I just wonder how much of them have a conscious to deal with, while they are forced to play behind the big money administration of today.

[drthais]

2. and now, courtesy of MSNBC

we have what they call
'The Fahrenheit 9/11 TRUTH-WATCH!"

disgusting
I think ONE Fox news channel is quite enough, thank you
I am almost at the point of throwing away the television
if it weren't for C-Span, there would be nothing worth watching

[Sparkly]

7. Let us know if they come up with any actual "lies"

from the film. The media is working overtime trying to discredit it -- lots of hysterics, very few specifics.

[ALago1]

3. The media should be Moore's next target

I'd love to see him do a documentary on the media biases we have experienced recently.

[JohnyCanuck]

4. Right on

If the media whores didn't have their mouths krazy glued to Bush's ass over the last 3 and a half years, there would have been no need for F911. F911 just makes plain what's becoming more and more evident every day, you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. Too bad for the media that's exactly what they have been trying so hard to do.

[otohara]

9. krazy glued to Bush's ass - LOL

but perfect description of how pathetic they have performed during this nightmare of an administration.

[Nlighten1]

5. FOX News calls the election for Bush

And then the other two networks recant their calling it for Gore.

We need to really, really do something about the media in America.

[Sparkly]

6. I loved the clips of their fearmongering

Poison pens!
Model planes as weapons!
Danger! Danger! Danger!

[JohnyCanuck]

8. Las Vegas Mercury Op ed agrees

Fahrenheit 9/11
Burning Bush: Fahrenheit 9/11 is a timely exposé of Dubya's perfidy and the media's subservience


By Jeannette Catsoulis


Seated opposite a hostile Matt Lauer on a recent episode of NBC's "Dateline," a Buddha-like Michael Moore, hands clasped comfortably beneath his substantial belly, smiled genially at his infuriated host. "How can you say you didn't set out to make a political movie?" railed Lauer, clearly forgetting he was fronting a soft-core infotainment program. "Isn't this film a direct attack on George W. Bush?" "Well, if you put it that way," chuckled Moore, "yes, of course it is."

The kicker would come a few minutes later, as Moore pointedly remarked that it would be nice if Lauer and his fellow "journalists" would subject Bush himself to such incisive questioning. A utopian idea, perhaps--at least by today's groveling media standards--and one raised coincidentally just a few weeks earlier by Jon Stewart on Comedy Central's "The Daily Show." After screening a clip of a London Times reporter ferociously grilling Prime Minister Tony Blair on his fudging of intelligence reports, Stewart turned to the camera with his trademark look of baffled innocence. "Where do we get one of those?" he inquired.

Where, indeed, is the question that informs every frame of Fahrenheit 9/11, an appalling and timely exposé of the connections, machinations, and financial dealings of the Bush administration. But as shocking as these are, the movie's most devastating indictment is reserved implicitly for our mainstream news media, whose indolence, subservience and cowardice appear immeasurable. (emphasis mine /jc) As one horrifying image follows another, and each revelation is superseded by one even more disturbing, the deficiencies of the fourth estate cannot be ignored. Why is it left to Moore to present us with an uncensored copy of Bush's military records, and disclose coherently the highly suspect actions of Dubya's relatives in the 2000 election debacle? And how does Moore manage to embed his own camera crews in Iraq--obtaining footage of civilian casualties and abuse of Iraqi prisoners well before Abu Ghraib--while our networks feed us the pre-digested pablum prepared by the White House?

www.lasvegasmercury.com/2004/MERC-Jun-24-Thu-2004/24162082.html

[otohara]

10. Understandable Why Media Is Ripping FH911

they can't stand the criticizm of themselves in the movie.

[Eloriel]

11. Oh, that's TERRIFIC

Thanks! I particularly loved this line:

"How can you say you didn't set out to make a political movie?" railed Lauer, clearly forgetting he was fronting a soft-core infotainment program.

VERY rich, very satisfying, utterly delicious.

[JohnyCanuck]

12. kick

n/t