{"id":88,"date":"2004-06-20T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-06-20T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/opendna.com\/?p=88"},"modified":"2022-11-08T12:53:21","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T12:53:21","slug":"fahrenheit-911-opens-625","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/2004\/06\/20\/fahrenheit-911-opens-625\/","title":{"rendered":"Fahrenheit 9\/11 Opens 6\/25"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear Friends,<\/p>\n

I don’t usually forward jokes or campaigns or calls to action and the like. So this is an exception (hopefully forgiven because it’s original).<\/p>\n

Michael Moore’s documentary entitled “Fahrenheit 9\/11” opens tomorrow, June 25th (the first showing in San Francisco is 12:01am). I want to encourage all of you to see it this weekend.<\/p>\n

You can check Fandango’s website for listings: http:\/
\n\/www.fandango.com\/movie_page.asp?mv=85329&aff=&source=fr2_t<\/a><\/p>\n

Sure, you can wait for it to come out on VHS\/DVD or to hit HBO, but there’s also the principle of consumers “voting with their dollars”. By seeing this movie this weekend you join a mass of people pushing F911 to be the biggest grossing documentary in history. Should it that mark, a loud message will be sent to Hollywood that there is a strong market for hard-hitting documentaries, and they’ll make more.<\/p>\n

When I read history about the Muckrakers of the late 1800s or the investigative journalists who busted open scandals in the past (think Watergate), I feel sad. I feel sad that today’s news media is gutless, weak, noodle-spined ass-kissing entertainment barely pretending to be journalism.<\/p>\n

The profit motive has spoken and it says printing press releases is more cost-effective than paying investigators to produce stories for Headline News or 60 Minutes. Fine. Tomorrow the Consumer gets to vote.<\/p>\n

If 60 Minutes had been doing their job, Michael Moore wouldn’t have done it for them. But they didn’t, so he has, and I for one would like to see Hollywood take up the fallen flame of Muckrakers.<\/p>\n

$12 for two hours to support hard-hitting journalism. You probably paid three times that for your cable, and when was the last time they blew your mind so efficiently? Besides, by all accounts, it’s a really good movie.<\/p>\n

Peace,<\/p>\n