Originally posted by lazs2
Besides "hi... my name is Michael moore." He claimed that the news media in the U.S. exagerates the dangers here and focusus on the things that freighten people. Does anyone still watch the news on TV or read the papers? I do like the fact that some right wing news shows are on... A kinda balance but not really.... both the left wing ones and the right distort the facts.
He also pointed out that if you are Canada and have a long porus border with the U.S. then you probly have a buffer zone instead of a problem.
lazs
I haven't seen the film. I'm not much of a fan of people who use politics for entertainment purposes. Too often the politics is massaged into entertainment through distortion of the facts.
I remember one instance in particular in which the local news' exaggeration of a danger caused a severe backlash from its viewers. A couple of years ago there was a hurricane churning up the Atlantic and the local news kept doing news breaks to tell us the tracking and probability of it coming our way. Every time they did this, they did the usual "Items You Should Stock" and "Precautions You Should Take", complete with shots of panicked people at the grocery store and home improvement store grabbing stuff off the shelves like the world was coming to an end. As the news show did its opening and closing "bumpers" (the part with the station logo and opening music) they always used this driving dead-serious orchestration, kinda like the fight music from "Star Trek" as the Klingon warships closed on the Enterprise, or the music used in the de Beers commercials, or the theme from "Jaws" all rolled up into one 5-second pulsing chord.
Quite frankly, it scared the crap out of the local population.
And then the hurricane never hit.
We got some rain, some wind, but nothing more severe than what we get any other day.
People complained. They had been driven into a near-panic by the news reports. They thought they were about to die. The news station had exaggerated the danger and given excessive updates because, quite frankly, there wasn't anything else to report about. The station issued an on-air apology (but only once, and if you weren't watching the noon report - and so few people do - you never would've heard it).
