WTF Is It Now?!?

Moore's ax falls on a derelict, whore media
Fahrenheit 9/11 exposes media 'balance' as a cop-out.

Moore has shamed an American press corps that, for fear of offending conservatives, refused to report what Moore was now reporting - everything from the cursory interviews the FBI conducted with members of Osama bin Laden's family in America before letting them leave to the eagerness of big business in exploiting Iraq to the astonishing fact that only one of the 535 members of Congress has a child serving in the military in Iraq. And that shame, added to the film's success, may be the reason why Moore has not been summarily dismissed by the mainstream media as a left-wing shill.

The media know that whatever Fahrenheit 9/11 exposes about Bush, it also has exposed something arguably even more important about them: that balance is itself bias and that under its cover they have protected a president whose administration, if examined fairly, may very well be indefensible.

- Neal Gabler.