{"id":6610,"date":"2004-08-12T14:37:51","date_gmt":"2004-08-12T21:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/08\/12\/documentary.html"},"modified":"2004-08-12T14:37:51","modified_gmt":"2004-08-12T21:37:51","slug":"documentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/08\/12\/documentary.html","title":{"rendered":"Documentary?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve not had much comment on Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9\/11<\/em>, but this story just strikes me as odd<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Filmmaker Michael Moore makes no apologizes for his Bush-bashing documentary “Fahrenheit 9\/11,” and his attorney says he’ll make no apologies for its use of an Illinois newspaper headline, either.
\nThe (Bloomington) Pantagraph says the headline, flashed briefly in the film, came from a letter to the editor about the 2000 presidential election recount but was doctored to look like a news story. Even the date was changed.
\n[…] Westside Productions attorney Devereux Chatillon acknowledged that Moore was two weeks off on the date of the headline, which read: “Latest Florida recount shows Gore won election.”
\nBut the mistake “did not make a difference to the editorial point … and was in no way detrimental to (The Pantagraph),” the New York-based attorney wrote in a letter to the paper.<\/p>\n

So why, if he was using it simply as a visual, and was going to have to change it anyway, did he not (a) find a headline from the correct period that said what he wanted, or (b) devise a different visual, or (c) dummy up a headline altogether? Why, instead, take a real <\/em>newpaper clipping, change <\/em>the context (Letter to the Editor becoming a news story), and alter <\/em>the date, all ot make it look just the way he wanted it to?<\/p>\n

It’s not so much that, as Moore’s attorney points out, the newspaper has suffered any harm. It’s just … well, I don’t know, illustrative <\/em>of Moore’s documentary procedures, I guess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve not had much comment on Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9\/11, but this story just strikes me as odd: Filmmaker Michael Moore makes no apologizes for his Bush-bashing documentary “Fahrenheit 9\/11,”…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fourth-estate"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5855,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/07\/09\/the_truth_hurts.html","url_meta":{"origin":6610,"position":0},"title":"The truth hurts","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 9-Jul-04 6:51pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Michael Moore says that, at the DC premiere of Fahrenheit 9\/11, he sat a few rows behind Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle. 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