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‘Fahrenheit 9/11’ brings perspective not seen on TV
(A P )— Time was, you had to go
to the movies to see the news. Then
cam e television, which brought
newsreels right into your home.
Now, in this election year a half-
century later, people in huge num­
bers have found that getting news
about the war in Iraq and the poli­
tics behind it makes a trip to the
multiplex well worth the bother.
Who could have forecast such a
relapse?
Could be, neither fans nor de­
tractors of Michael Moore, whose
“Fahrenheit 9/11” has uprooted
couch potatoes by the carload.
His is a film that is firing up the
public, both pro and con — even
people who haven’t seen it.
And it’s done som ething else.
In the way the film fram es the
presidency o f G eorge W. Bush
(“ W as it all ju s t a dream ?” M oore
m uses over im ages o f A1 G ore
celebrating his short-lived win
and A frican A m ericans ap p eal­
ing on d eaf ears the theft o f an
election) “F ahrenheit 9 /11” has
m anaged to upstage m ainstream
TV journalism .
All the more surprising that the
TV-news establishment is eclipsed
by an independent film that costs
good money to see, and until just
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Michael Moore (right) confronts Congressman John Tanner, D-Tenn, on Capitol Hill in Washington
in a scene from Moore 's documentary feature “Farenheit 9 /1 1 ."
weeks ago, hadn’t even landed a
theatrical distributor.
So what does “Fahrenheit 9/11”
give its audiences that newscasts
thus far don’t.
For starters: the video footage of
recuperating U.S. soldiers, Iraqi
casualties, President Bush in that
classroom paralyzed for seven min­
utes after learning of the terrorist
attacks. This is video you have
likely seen nowhere else, and you
emerge from the theater wonder­
ing, “Why the heck not?”
“Fahrenheit 9/11,” which won
the top prize at the Cannes Film
Festival in M ay, tackles grand
themes with humor, fury and naked
partisanship that insists upon a
response from the viewer.
And it provides a bracing alter­
native to the claim s for objectivity
Summer Heat Dangers
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dangerous strain on the heart,
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O ffic ia ls at M ultnom ah
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that reign at TV news outlets (in­
cluding, naturally, the “fair-and-
b alan ced ” -b o astin g Fox N ew s
Channel, whose lack o f objectivity
is probably its greatest asset). These
Big Media news providers have
served as Bush administration fa­
cilitators ever since his disputed
election, declares Moore, a little
guy whose message is unmistak­
ably his own.
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