Oh, now THIS amuses me!
Aug. 13th, 2004 01:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
whiski_sourI got this from the IMDB news page.
Bosses at Bloomington publication The Pantagraph say the headline, flashed briefly in the film, came from a letter to the editor about the 2000 presidential election recount but was doctored to look like a news story. Even the date was changed. The newspaper sent a letter to Moore and his production company last month that it says was lighthearted but symbolic, demanding an apology and $1 in compensatory damages. But an attorney for Moore's Westside Productions replied this week, stating that Moore violated no copyright laws and did nothing misleading. Pantagraph president and publisher Henry Bird, who directed his lawyers to send a follow-up letter asking Moore to explain why material from the paper was altered without permission, booms, "Baloney!" Westside Productions lawyer Devereux Chatillon acknowledges that Moore was two weeks off on the date of the headline, which read: "Latest Florida recount shows Gore won election." But Chatillon wrote in a letter to the paper that the mistake "did not make a difference to the editorial point... and was in no way detrimental to (The Pantagraph)".
Please note that last sentence.
Dear Mr. Moore...
Your nice film, Fahrenhiet 9/11, questions the ethics of President Bush. In making said film, you altered the headline of a newspaper, an ethically questionable decision.
Mmmmm. Irony. It's what's for dinner.
Congratulations on getting busted by a bunch of bumpkins in the middle of the Great Corn Desert,
Chesh
Bosses at Bloomington publication The Pantagraph say the headline, flashed briefly in the film, came from a letter to the editor about the 2000 presidential election recount but was doctored to look like a news story. Even the date was changed. The newspaper sent a letter to Moore and his production company last month that it says was lighthearted but symbolic, demanding an apology and $1 in compensatory damages. But an attorney for Moore's Westside Productions replied this week, stating that Moore violated no copyright laws and did nothing misleading. Pantagraph president and publisher Henry Bird, who directed his lawyers to send a follow-up letter asking Moore to explain why material from the paper was altered without permission, booms, "Baloney!" Westside Productions lawyer Devereux Chatillon acknowledges that Moore was two weeks off on the date of the headline, which read: "Latest Florida recount shows Gore won election." But Chatillon wrote in a letter to the paper that the mistake "did not make a difference to the editorial point... and was in no way detrimental to (The Pantagraph)".
Please note that last sentence.
Dear Mr. Moore...
Your nice film, Fahrenhiet 9/11, questions the ethics of President Bush. In making said film, you altered the headline of a newspaper, an ethically questionable decision.
Mmmmm. Irony. It's what's for dinner.
Congratulations on getting busted by a bunch of bumpkins in the middle of the Great Corn Desert,
Chesh
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Date: 2004-08-15 12:55 am (UTC)Missy
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Date: 2004-08-15 11:40 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-08-18 11:44 am (UTC)WL,
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