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Wednesday, June 23, 2004 Still and all— paranoia and the Saudis aside — it's bracing to read Christopher Hitchens clean Michael Moore's clock over journalistic methodology in Fahrenheit 9/11:I know, thanks, before you tell me, that a documentary must have a "POV" or point of view and that it must also impose a narrative line. But if you leave out absolutely everything that might give your "narrative" a problem and throw in any old rubbish that might support it, and you don't even care that one bit of that rubbish flatly contradicts the next bit, and you give no chance to those who might differ, then you have betrayed your craft. If you flatter and fawn upon your potential audience, I might add, you are patronizing them and insulting them. By the same token, if I write an article and I quote somebody and for space reasons put in an ellipsis like this (…), I swear on my children that I am not leaving out anything that, if quoted in full, would alter the original meaning or its significance. Those who violate this pact with readers or viewers are to be despised. I'll have my own opinion on the rest after seeing the film this weekend. But if this Moore guy gets any more famous I might have to change my name. posted by Michael Scott Moore | 12:37 AM
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