Tuesday, August 03, 2004

Newspaper Hits Michael Moore for Copyright Infringement

I love it! Moore fakes a newspaper headline used in his movie Fahrenheit 9/11. I guess he manufactured a headline, based on a smaller headline from a different edition’s opinion section. The article says more used:

“…"Latest Florida recount shows Gore won election." The paper contends that the headline actually appeared on Dec. 5, 2001, in much smaller type, and above a letter to the editor”

I think manufacturing evidence to support bias in a documentary film moves the documentary into being classified a work of fiction, perhaps the Acadamy Awards will agree? Of course, there is always the blatant misleading to consider.