Thursday, September 18, 2014
For me, the Farenheit 9/11 movie is just thinly veiled anti-Bush propaganda. The author doesn't even try to hide the fact that he has a deep personal dislike of Bush, and that right there shows that he's a terrible journalist, and should not be marketing this as a documentary, because clearly he doesn't have the required neutral, unbiased, point of view. He uses weak and obvious ploys to plant his own words in the ex-president's mouth by voicing his thoughts, and that's kind of pathetic honestly. If that's the only thing he could find to prove his point, then he's either a terrible journalist or a really lazy one who couldn't be bothered to find legitimate sources instead of doing bad voice overs of what he wants the president to have been thinking. It's just sad, really. And fairly irritating.
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I agree with you that Moore doesn't seem to have the unbiased view that he would need to make a fair documentary. It's almost funny how hard he has to try to make his argument and even then, it isn't even remotely considered a valid argument. His failed attempts to back up his claims only seem to make the documentary more unreliable.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you as well. I think that this movie is kind of pointless. I think there are 3 different audiences watching this movie. The first audience is comprised of the people who share a similar viewpoint as the narrator. This movie does nothing for those people because it's just reaffirming their current beliefs. The second audience is made of all the people on the complete opposite side. This movie will likely have no affect on them because their views are too strong and because it is too biased to take seriously. The final group is everyone else in the middle. This movie will not sway any of their views because he is to biased for anyone to take his views seriously.
ReplyDeleteI completely agree with you. I do not think that first of all this was even an interesting thing to watch about 9/11, because all it was, was an attack on Bush. I also agree that he could not be a more terrible journalist just assuming everything and putting words in the mouths of people on the days on and after 9/11.
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