Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Bias in the Media: Fahrenheit 9/11

I learned alot about how the media can spin and twist the facts to point the viewer or reader in the wrong direction. There are examples of how Moore does this in his documentary Fahrenheit 9/11. Moore's voice over in many scenes provides a tremendous amount of bias throughout the movie. In the scene where President Bush first hears about the second tower of the WTC being hit, Moore does a voice over of what the President might be thinking in that moment. Really, Moore is simply expressing his ideas of what President Bush might be thinking. Anyone can take that piece of film and make it look like whatever they want. I think it would be best to simply show the piece of film and let the audience draw their own conclusions. The same goes for any piece of information revealed to the public, whether it's an article in the news paper, or a documentary on 9/11.

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