Moore doctored newspaper

[IlliniBob72]

The Pantagraph, a Bloomington/Normal newspaper is calling for an apology from Michael Moore, for doctoring their front page for his movie F/911. His movie showed the Pantagraph, they claim, with the headline stating, "Florida recount shows that Gore actually won election". The Pantagraph says that that was never on their front page but was actually just a title of a letter appearing in their Letters to the Editor page.

[kapkomet]

But this movie wasn't propaganda, just fact... rolleyeyes.gif

[Goldmember]

i sometimes deliver the pantagraph...

[Controlled Chaos]

Just Moore Lies!!!!!!!

 

Pantagraph to Moore: Headline use 'misleading'

 

Explanation, apology sought

 

By Bill Flick

[email protected]

 

BLOOMINGTON -- The Pantagraph has a message for Michael Moore, creator of the movie hit, "Fahrenheit 9/11":

If he wants to "edit" The Pantagraph, he should apply for a copy-editing job and not simply show made-over and "falsely represented" pages from the newspaper in his movie -- or he should at least ask for permission first.

 

In a letter drafted Thursday and sent to Moore and the movie's Santa Monica, Calif.-based distributor, Lions Gate Entertainment, the newspaper admonished him for his "unauthorized ... misleading" use of The Pantagraph in the film. He also was cited for copyright infringement.

 

The letter, drafted by J. Casey Costigan of the Bloomington law firm, Costigan & Wollrab, seeks an apology, an explanation of how such a strange discrepancy occurred in his movie and compensatory damages -- of $1.

 

"While we are highly flattered to be included in the movie," said Pantagraph President and Publisher Henry Bird, "we are a bit disturbed that our pages were misrepresented."

 

Previous attempts to reach Moore through Lions Gate by phone and e-mail were unsuccessful.

 

In the film, Moore criticizes President Bush's handling of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the subsequent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the president's and his associates' ties to Saudi Arabian oil interests.

 

In a moment early in the movie, newspaper headlines from around America that relate to the legally contested 2000 presidential election flash across the screen. One of them is purported to be from a Dec. 19, 2001, edition of The Pantagraph.

 

But a check of that day's newspaper revealed the large headline prominently flashed in the movie -- "Latest Florida recount shows Gore won election" -- never appeared in that edition.

 

Instead, the headline appeared in a Dec. 5, 2001, edition -- but not as a news headline. It was in much smaller type above a letter to the editor. Those headlines reflect only the opinions of the letter writer and are not considered "factual" news stories.

 

In the movie, The Pantagraph page, as shown, was not how a real page from the newspaper would have looked. Moore's version had a different typeface and a different headline size from what The Pantagraph uses. The newspaper's name, however, appears in the correct font.

 

The letter calls all of this a "misrepresentation of facts."

 

The discrepancy first came to light in a July 16 Bill Flick column.

 

Since then it has become a topic of newspaper articles, radio talk shows and various Web sites.

 

"In an instance that The Pantagraph prints materials in which there is a mistake," the Costigan letter to Moore reads, "it is corrected. It is our hope that you would adhere to the same high ethical standard and correct the inaccurate information which has been depicted in your film."

 

The letter calls into question the ethics of how Moore made his movie, a movie whose primary purpose is to call into question the ethics of the Bush White House.

 

 

http://www.pantagraph.com/stories/073004/n...040730034.shtml

[1549]

i sometimes deliver the pantagraph...

And you're good with photoshop...I can see its all coming together...

 

wait, you're for Bush...nevermind

[LowerCaseRepublican]

Michael Moore is good at bringing a broad issue to peoples' attention (i.e. the relationship between the House of Saud, the bin Ladens & the Bush family) which people should be informed about in a democracy. Unfortunately for us, Mr. Moore forgoes a lot of detailed fact checking because, my best guess, there was a "Buy 1 dozen donuts, get another dozen free" sale at the local Flint Dunkin' Donuts.

 

There is a book out called "Michael Moore Is a Big Fat Stupid White Man". I don't suggest that people read it though. Yesterday, I saw it and looked through the sources. Unfortunately the authors relied on the Washington Times and wnd.com a bit too often in their argument. You can show Moore's looseness with the facts without numerous citations to dubious papers. (same goes for using NY Times for almost all the citations in a more liberally slanted book)

 

I say we just get Hannity, Limbaugh, Moore and the rest of the schmucks that are just shills and lock them in a building and build a monument to sane conservatives and liberals like Justin Raimondo, Ron Paul and Noam Chomsky among others who don't use deceptive writing and lax fact checking to get their points across.

[kapkomet]

I say we just get Hannity, Limbaugh, Moore and the rest of the schmucks that are just shills and lock them in a building and build a monument to sane conservatives and liberals like Justin Raimondo, Ron Paul and Noam Chomsky among others who don't use deceptive writing and lax fact checking to get their points across.

I agree with that. But if you put Hannity and Moore and Limbaugh in a room, who would come out alive?

 

(There is no good answer).