[CLUE-Talk] Political compass

[Randy Arabie]

On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 10:01:18PM -0700, Jeff Cann wrote:
> On Friday 07 November 2003 9:13 am, Randy Arabie wrote:
> 
> > I thought documentaries were supposed to be based on fact...
> 
> I think that may be a misconception.  Documentaries are the director's 
> interpretation of the facts - much like a columnist writes an opinion based 
> on his interpretation.  Most documentaries end up being closer to the facts 
> than an actual film, since a film is generally fiction or 'based on a story'.  
> 
> Besides, didn't you say that everyone's biased, so aren't documentarians?

True.  Guess you got me there.

However, I think Moore took his interpretation of the facts a
bit far with his short cartoon, A Brief History of America,
in which he painted the NRA as a bunch of ex-Klansmen,
racists.
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Allons Rouler!

Randy
http://www.arabie.org/