Something I actually agree with. His take on the CNN/Moore debacle:
Michael Moore elicits a very specific type of status anxiety in mainstream journalists. Moore’s product — passionate, provocative political commentary — is a close cousin of the media’s product — bloodless, boring political commentary. And Moore is a former journalist, an editor at papers in Flint, Michigan and Mother Jones. What he does is, broadly speaking, in the same realm as what they do. But there are differences between the product he puts out, and what the media offers. A major one is that Moore’s releases strike massive emotional chords with the American people, setting off weeks of heated discussion every time he unveils a film.
(via Movin’ Meat)
