Big Fat Liar: Debunking Michael Moore

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Originally Posted by Xantar

Have you been looking at those websites at all? Yes, newscasters leave things out. But Michael Moore did a lot more than leave a few facts out. Many of the scenes in his documentaries are actually staged. Are you going to start arguing to me that newscasters stage their interviews?

Or how about this one: at one point, Michael Moore showed a speech by Charlton Heston. If you look closely at the footage, you'll notice that his shirt suddenly changes color partway through the speech. Why's that? Because Michael Moore took parts of two speeches that were delivered several months apart and spliced them together, thus making it look like Charlton Heston had said something he never actually did. Go ahead. Look at the video yourself. Are you now going to argue that deceptively splicing footage together is no worse than leaving out a few facts in your reporting? As you said, newscasters are lying "not by choice." So are you going to tell me that Michael Moore kind of accidentally spliced together footage to create a non-existent speech that just happens to help his argument?

The problme with arguing about things like these is that not everyone will ever agree. We could argue forever. I think Micheal's Bowling for Columbine was a great movie. I did learn a lot about gun control in America. I'm not saying that changing facts is right but he did present quite a few disturbing facts. I was amazed at the number of gun murders in America.

And I really liked the parts about Canada.