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"For a journalist?" - It depends. Michael Moore specializes in editorializing rather than news reporting.

FYI, he's less of a journalist than an editorialist. In his documentaries Moore uses caustic irony to convey personally held views about corruption within our society; it's based upon a preponderance of selectively gathered evidence rather than simply reporting the news as he finds it.

In that regard, Michael Moore's films tend to be semi-documentary in concept, biased albeit based upon facts. His films are manipulative in the same way that news opinion editors make profound observations extolling the virtues of social change; moreover, they're extrapolations, based upon sufficient facts to reach an honest conclusion.

BTW, documentary filmmakers don't have to follow strict news media guidelines when seeking information for their films, they just have to be relatively accurate with the facts in order to build a compassionate case.

Some folks like what he does; others don't, but I kind of doubt that folks will lose much sleep over the fact that you seem to be a cheerleader for the latter category. ;0)

AuPh


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