Chicago Sun-Times‘ Phil Rosenthal, “Who do you believe: us, or Michael Moore?”
When it comes to assessing TV news coverage of the situation in Iraq, much of “Fahrenheit 9/11” is Hindsight 20/20, according to NBC’s Tom Brokaw.
Of greater concern to him and other top network newspeople, however, is the sense that some moviegoers consider Michael Moore’s film more credible than their own reports.
“My complaint was not with the criticism. I don’t complain about anything he has said. My concern is that this not be taken as journalism,” ABC “Nightline” host Ted Koppel said Monday. “It is journalism in the sense that an editorial in the Chicago Sun-Times is journalism, but that’s opinion journalism. It’s a different sort of thing.
“I worry that too many people are going to start taking that as gospel when indeed I know for a fact that there are things in that movie that a little bit of careful reporting could have corrected. But I don’t think [Moore] was altogether interested in getting it straight down the middle. He was interested in making a political statement, and he did it very well.
I weep for humanity. And as I do so, Michael Moore finishes off a bucket of chicken, then buys a fleet of private helicopters made entirely from chocolate and candy canes.
If you could imagine a kettle that could hold Koppels ego, and a pot that could hold Moore period, you might have enough size to allow the needed emphasis for this pot-kettle-black analogy….
Koppel says “there are things in that movie that a little bit of careful reporting could have corrected. But I don’t think [Moore] was altogether interested in getting it straight down the middle.” Ya think?
Did Koppel also say whether the Earth was round, and that it revolves around the sun? (Not too obvious for you, I hope, Ted?)
Does Koppel wonder why ABC considered replacing him with Letterman? (No, probably not, Letterman’s opinions branch out beyond the obvious, into stimulative and thought provoking.)
Breaking News – Ted Koppel is going to read off a list of every food item Michael Moore has eaten today. ABC is extending Nightline by three hours.
Koppel Koppel Koppel. So bought. So sold. You’d think he was humiliated by the movie or something.
So during the DNC hate America first convention koppel interviewed that fat fucker moore. moore sat there and said that there has never been a country that was invaded and had a democracy put in place.
German, Japan and Italy come to fucking mind. And koppel just sat there. Koppel clearly hate America too. Ether that or he’s just as fucking stupid as the rest of mikey moores fans!