Author
redjade
from CBS
Audio from
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/06/25/earlyshow/leisure/celebspot/m…
between Michael Moore and CBS’s Hannah Storm:
http://amsam.org/2004/06/moore-gives-it-to-cbs.html
Storm: "So this is satire and not documentary? We shouldn’t see this as-"
Moore: "It’s a satirical documentary."
Storm: "Some have said propaganda, do you buy that? Op-ed?"
Moore: "No, I consider the CBS Evening News propaganda. What I do is-"
Storm: "We’ll move beyond on that."
Moore: "Why? Let’s not move beyond that."
Storm: "You know what?"
Moore: "Seriously."
Storm: "No, let’s talk about your movie."
Moore: "But why don’t we talk about the Evening News on this network and
the other networks that didn’t do the job they should have done at the
beginning of this war?"
Storm: "You know what?"
Moore: "Demanded the evidence, ask the hard questions-"
Storm: "Okay."
Moore: "-we may not of even gone into this war had these networks done
their job. I mean, it was a great disservice to the American people because we
depend on people who work here and the other networks to go after those in
power and say 'Hey, wait a minute. You want to send our kids off to war, we
want to know where those weapons of mass destruction are. Let’s see the proof.
Let’s see the proof that Saddam Hussein had something to do with 9/11.’"
Storm: "But-"
Moore: "There was no proof and everybody just got embedded and everybody
rolled over and everybody knows that now."
Storm: "Michael, the one thing that journalists try to do is to present
both sides of the story. And it could be argued that you did not do that in
this movie."
Moore: "I certainly didn’t. I presented my side-"
Storm: "You presented your side of the story."
Moore: "Because my side, that’s the side of millions of Americans, rarely
gets told. And so, all I’m, look, this is just a humble plea on my behalf and
not to you personally, Hannah. But I’m just saying to journalists in general
that instead of working so hard to tell both sides of the story, why don’t you
just tell that one side, which is the administration, why don’t you ask them
the hard questions-"
Storm: "Which I think is something that we all try to do."
Moore: "Well, I think it was a lot of cheerleading going on at the
beginning of this war-"
Storm: "Alright."
Moore: "A lot of cheerleading and it didn’t do the public any good to have
journalists standing in front of the camera going 'whoop-dee-do, let’s all go
to war’. And, and it’s not their kids going to war. It’s not the children of
the news executives going to war-"
Storm: "Michael, why don’t you do you next movie about networks news, okay?
Because this movie-"
Moore: "I know, I think I should do that movie."
Storm: "-because this movie is an attack on the president and his
policies."
Moore: "Well, and it also points out how the networks failed us at the
beginning of this war and didn’t do their job."