Reply #90: there are a few times in which I have disagreed with Michael Moore's assertions or the way he

[Douglas Carpenter]

represented them. I think of one right off hand. When he presented a selected French family as an average French family in Sicko, I was watching the film with a close friend who had lived in France for several years. My friend felt that he was representing a clearly upper middle class French family as opposed to an average French family. But then again, upper middle class American families are represented as average American families in the mainstream American media all the time.

There are other times in which I think he could have been a little bit more nuanced about facts he was asserting. He was not factually incorrect, but still less than absolutely precise when understood in full context.

If the standard is how is Michael Moore compared to the mainstream American media, Michael Moore compares very favorably.

I suppose Michael Moore is a propagandist in the sense that most of the mainstream American media are propagandist. He is just a propagandist from a perspective seldom represented in the mainstream media. - a perspective that challenges power instead of reinforcing it.

Still, Michael Moore is making a valuable contribution and is a great American.

I most certainly do kick and recommend this post. Michael Moore is great. One just needs to use their critical faculties whether it is Michael Moore or the nightly news.

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