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Originally Posted by Dylflon
A lot of newscasters are lying. Well...not by choice. But mainly they're just leaving things out. You watched the war in Iraq on American TV and they showed soldiers giving food and securing oil fields. But if you see and Al Jazheera news cast (as i did) you'd see American soldiers shooting families who didn't cooperate. I'm not saying that the American military is evil i'm just saying that this is hiw it played out and nobody in America really knew. I'm sure the media leaves things out from time to time. Do you think they're really going to show things on the news that makes your country look bad?
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Have you been looking at those websites at all? Yes, newscasters leave things out. But Michael Moore did a lot more than leave a few facts out. Many of the scenes in his documentaries are actually staged. Are you going to start arguing to me that newscasters stage their interviews?
Or how about this one: at one point, Michael Moore showed a speech by Charlton Heston. If you look closely at the footage, you'll notice that his shirt suddenly changes color partway through the speech. Why's that? Because Michael Moore took parts of two speeches that were delivered
several months apart and spliced them together, thus making it look like Charlton Heston had said something he never actually did. Go ahead. Look at the video yourself. Are you now going to argue that deceptively splicing footage together is no worse than leaving out a few facts in your reporting? As you said, newscasters are lying "not by choice." So are you going to tell me that Michael Moore kind of accidentally spliced together footage to create a non-existent speech that just happens to help his argument?