{"id":476,"date":"2007-06-15T15:27:46","date_gmt":"2007-06-15T22:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=476"},"modified":"2008-08-06T17:39:24","modified_gmt":"2008-08-07T00:39:24","slug":"michael-moore-on-the-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=476","title":{"rendered":"Michael Moore On The Media"},"content":{"rendered":"

Appearing on ABC’s Good Morning America to promote his new film “Sicko,”<\/em> Michael Moore discussed<\/a> the media’s complicity with the horror that is Iraq:<\/p>\n

“Had ABC News, NBC News, CBS News been more aggressive in confronting the government with what they were telling us back in 2003 about Iraq, you might have prevented this war,” Moore said. “3500 soldiers that are dead today may not have had to die had our news media done its job.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Well said, Michael. Now how about making the media the subject of your next film? What could possibly be more important? There is no problem that our society faces that can be fixed without fixing the problem of the media first. And as you point out, lives are truly at stake. Without an informed populace it is impossible to move policy and politicians to effect real change on health care, the environment, civil rights, Iraq, or any other issue. The media is the forum for educating people on a mass scale. Unfortunately, it is also the forum for deceiving and sedating them, which is how it is used most frequently these days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Appearing on ABC’s Good Morning America to promote his new film “Sicko,” Michael Moore discussed the media’s complicity with the horror that is Iraq: “Had ABC News, NBC News, CBS News been more aggressive in confronting the government with what they were telling us back in 2003 about Iraq, you might have prevented this war,” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,1],"tags":[363,364],"class_list":["post-476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-culture","category-general","tag-michael-moore","tag-sicko"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-7G","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":433,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=433","url_meta":{"origin":476,"position":0},"title":"Michael Moore And U.S. Government Conspiring to Promote Sicko","author":"Mark NC","date":"5\/11\/2007","format":false,"excerpt":"It is now being widely reported that the U. 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