Michael Moore v. CNN (by John Nichols for The Nation)

[marmar]

Edited to correct the link.


BLOG | Posted 07/11/2007 @ 03:20am
Michael Moore v. CNN
John Nichols


The frequently ridiculous Dr. Sanjay Gupta and the always ridiculous Wolf Blitzer tried to take apart filmmaker Michael Moore case against the failed U.S. health care system this week on CNN's "The Situation Room."

They lost.

Badly.

After airing Gupta's four-minute attack on Moore's new documentary, "Sicko," which sounded at times more like an insurance-industry advertisement than journalism, Blitzer introduced a live appearance by Moore.

"That report was so biased, I can't imagine what pharmaceutical company's ads are coming up right after our break here," Moore immediately declared. "Why don't you tell the truth to the American people? I wish that CNN and the other mainstream media would just for once tell the truth about what's going on in this country."

Focusing on CNN's on-bended-knee coverage of the Bush administration's pre-war arguments for attacking Iraq, Moore suggested that viewers might have their doubts about the willingness of the network to speak truth to power -- in the Oval Office or in the boardrooms of insurance and pharmaceutical corporations. ......(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.thenation.com/blogs/notion?pid=212763

[AX10]

1. To be CNN is to be Fox "News" Channel.

F**K OFF!

[groovedaddy]

2. I just saw the film yesterday

Nothing short of amazing. Our country should be ashamed!\
Clearly, the powers that be in the U.S. regard access to healthcare as a privilege and not a basic human right. Fascist bastards!

[TheBaldyMan]

4. Not unless it is their gold-plated health plan -full coverage for life, no co-pays, 35$/month

[Briar]

5. Hasn't this actually been stated?

I remember some right wing ideologue explicitly mocking the idea of access to healthcare as a right a couple of years ago. I just can't dredge up who...

But there is nothing extraordinary about this. The right believes (ironically) in the survival of the (socially) fittest. The weak should go to the wall.

[Jim__]

3. I'm glad Moore went directly at blitzer and cnn.

We need more people to publicly state to the media that the media are just a bunch of suck-ups to corporate power and corporate advertising money.

[Briar]

6. Good

So you won't be running a poll about who has done more damage to the (ever so respectable) Democrats: Moore or Rove?