Did Moore deserve the Palme D'or ?

[pablo]

The other night Michael Moore's new film Farrenheit 9/11 won the covetted Palme D'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, the first documentary to win the prize in almost half a century. The film broke the record for longest standing ovation at a Cannes screening with a twenty minute standing ovation at the premiere. Also it broke the record for most screenings in one day at the festival with 5.

The panel of judges was made up of 11 people, 1 French judge, 4 Americans (including Quentin Tarantino as the President of the committee) and 6 other judges from various nationalities. A full list can be gathered from:

http://www.empireonline.co.uk/

In the current climate of world politics and with the refusal of Michael Eisner and Disney to allow Miramax (owned by Disney) to distribute the film in America, can this film be seen as a landmark of our generation. Obviously the film has its own agenda, Moore is hardly known as a pro-Bush American, but doesn't everything. Does this film, which includes scenes of prisoner abuses in Iraq before Abu Ghraib (excuse my spelling) and outside Abu Ghraib, represent a wake up call to those of us who have become so dependent on conventional big business media for our news that we have forgotten that even Grainne Ní Seoige on Sky News Ireland has an agenda to push. The BBC went after Tony Blair, a commendable sentiment, after the Dr. Kelly affair and every newspaper in Britain lambasted them. Why? Because they all knew that Iraq was a phoney war, fought for phoney reasons, but WAR SELLS NEWSPAPERS. The Gulf War was such a media success that you could buy videos of ITN's coverage of it 2 months after the conflict!

The question posed here is this: Are we now so incapable of finding our own news that a self-confessed untrained journalist like Michael Moore can have tapes of prisoner abuse 2 MONTHS before we see it on Sky News (and despite trying to tell any news network that will listen nobody would run with the stroy) while we sit and wait till Sky News or CNN or Fox tell us we can see it. Is the old adage true, out of sight out of mind?

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some anti moore websites
www.moorewatch.com
www.moorelies.com
www.michaelmoorehatesamerica.com

there has been talk that in 'Bowling for Columbine' some liberties were taken with the film.

[stairway 2 hell]

i think it is quite clear that the media plays a huge influence on the running and our attitude to politics. take for example the bush/gore election. a farce of dynamic proportions but all it took was a member of the bush campaign to give a little whisper that bush was nudging in front of gore (even at this stage he was still 30,000 votes behind) and fox suddenly announces that bush has one. it is hopeless. take for example reuters. you will never ever hear reuters give any negative media coverage about israel. why? because 9/10 of the ceo board is jewish. never mind the fact that israel is completely 100% wrong in the way it is handling islamic terrorists, for instance a 3 year old palestinian girl was shot in the head (twice) just last week. israel denies it completely despite the fact that the custom made bullets used by the israeli steyr aug assault rifle was removed from her skull. war crimes are taking place in occupied palestine but western journalism dictates what we see. al jazera journalism, the islamic version of reuters, is probably the most unbiased jounalism corporation out there. all they give is the facts they never hold an opinion over anything. even especially in israel where they have hundreds upon hundreds of videos of possible war crimes as they happen in palestine. i think the time for propaganda is over. michael moores win does show that we as people want to see more of the truth. somebody needs to stand up to bush and say now, and that person should have been tony blair. george bush is a war monger, his economy is in ruins, unemployment is sky high in the us and yet he still feels the need to lie and deceive the american people. michael moore, although some of his movies have been shown to be flawed in its accuracy, is one person who is standing up and saying no.....