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Subject: Re: [OM] Re: OT now Coke, mutating to chemistry and etc...
From: Jim Brokaw <jbrokaw@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 01:04:08 -0800
on 11/29/03 8:05 PM, Walt Wayman at hiwayman@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Heston was well past the early stages of Alzheimer's when he was
> ambushed by Moore and a film crew who arrived unannounced and took
> advantage of a sick man's hospitality.  Of course, that's just
> normal behavior for a sneaky, disgusting, lying, self-promoting
> piece of shit like Michael Moore.
> 
> Walt

So, Walt, do you have an opinion here...? <g>

Seems to me that Rob got it right close... Anyone producing a film makes
choices about what to put in and what to take out. Any film producer with an
agenda will make choices to advance his agenda... and if enough people
convince themselves that the agenda advanced agrees with their point of view
the film will be regarded as good. On the other hand, if the film represents
an opposite point of view, no matter how accurate or well-presented, those
viewers will find the film unsatisfactory. What also happens is that the
viewers with incompletely formed or unsettled points of view might be
influenced, and I suspect that here is where Mr. Moore's purpose is.

Put another way, his films are as much 'propaganda' as any NRA-sponsored
film, but from a different direction. Unfortunately, more and more 'public
messaging' is given over to such polarized messages... serious balanced
examinations of matters of public issue or public policy just puts the
public to sleep apparently, so no organization or agency undertakes that
sort of thing much anymore. Instead its all advertising, trying to get you
to 'buy' their viewpoint and agenda.
-- 

Jim Brokaw
OM-'s of all sorts, and no OM-oney...




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