Fwd: An Open Letter to CNN from Michael Moore

July 14, 2007

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An Open Letter to CNN from Michael Moore

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*An Open Letter to CNN from Michael Moore*

7/14/07

Dear CNN,

Well, the week is over -- and still no apology, no retraction, no

correction of your glaring mistakes.

I bet you thought my dust-up with Wolf Blitzer was just a cool ratings

coup, that you really wouldn't have to correct the false statements you

made about " Sicko. " I bet you thought I was just going to go

quietly away.

Think again. I'm about to become

your worst nightmare. 'Cause I ain't ever going away. Not until you set

the record straight, and apologize to your viewers. " The Most

Trusted Name in News? " I think it's safe to say you can retire that

slogan.

You have an occasional segment

called " Keeping Them Honest. " But who keeps you honest? After

what the public saw with your report on " Sicko, " and how many

inaccuracies that report contained, how can anyone believe anything you

say on your network? In the old days, before the Internet, you could get

away with it. Your victims had no way to set the record straight, to show

the viewers how you had misrepresented the truth. But now, we can post

the truth -- and back it up with evidence and facts -- on the web, for

all to see. And boy, judging from the mail both you and I have been

receiving, the evidence I have posted on my site about your

" Sicko " piece has led millions now to question your honesty.

I won't waste your time rehashing

your errors. You know what they are

<http://www.michaelmoore.com/sicko/checkup/setting-the-record-straight/>.

What I want to do is help you come clean. Admit you were wrong. What is

the shame in that? We all make mistakes. I know it's hard to admit it

when you've screwed up, but it's also liberating and cathartic. It not

only makes you a better person, it helps prevent you from screwing up

again. Imagine how many people will be drawn to a network that says,

" We made a mistake. We're human. We're sorry. We will make mistakes

in the future -- but we will always correct them so that you know you can

trust us. " Now, how hard would that really be?

As you know, I hold no personal

animosity against you or any of your staff. You and your parent company

have been very good to me over the years. You distributed my first film,

" Roger & Me " and you published " Dude, Where's My

Country? " Larry King has had me on twice in the last two weeks. I

couldn't ask for better treatment.

That's why I was so stunned when

you let a doctor who knows a lot about brain surgery -- but apparently

very little about public policy -- do a " fact check " story, not

on the medical issues in " Sicko, " but rather on the economic

and political information in the film. Is this why there has been a delay

in your apology, because you are trying to get a DOCTOR to say he was

wrong? Please tell him not to worry, no one is filing a malpractice claim

against him. Dr. Gupta does excellent and compassionate stories on CNN

about people's health and how we can take better care of ourselves. But

when it came time to discuss universal health care, he rushed together a

bunch of sloppy -- and old -- research. When his producer called us about

his report the day before it aired, we sent to her, in an email

<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/07/10/email-shows-cnn-gupta-g_n_55697.html>,

all the evidence so that he wouldn't make any mistakes on air. He chose

to ignore ALL the evidence, and ran with all his falsehoods -- even

though he had been given the facts a full day before! How could that

happen? And now, for 5 days, I have posted on my website, for all to see,

every mistake and error he made.

You, on the other hand, in the face

of this overwhelming evidence and a huge public backlash, have chosen to

remain silent, probably praying and hoping this will all go away.

Well it isn't. We are now going to

start looking into the veracity of other reports you have aired on other

topics. Nothing you say now can be believed. In 2002, the New York Times

busted you for bringing celebrities on your shows and not telling your

viewers they were paid spokespeople for the pharmaceutical companies. You

promised never to do it again. But there you were, in 2005, talking to

Joe Theismann, on air, as he pushed some drug company-sponsored website

on prostate health. You said nothing about about his affiliation with

GlaxoSmithKline.

Clearly, no one is keeping you

honest, so I guess I'm going to have to do that job, too. $1.5 billion is

spent each year by the drug companies on ads on CNN and the other four

networks. I'm sure that has nothing to do with any of this. After all, if

someone gave me $1.5 billion, I have to admit, I might say a kind word or

two about them. Who wouldn't?!

I expect CNN to put this matter to

rest. Say you're sorry and correct your story -- like any good journalist

would.

Then we can get back to more important things. Like a REAL discussion

about our broken health care system. Everything else is a distraction

from what really matters.

Yours,

Michael Moore

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www.michaelmoore.com

<http://www.michaelmoore.com/>

P.S. If you also want to apologize for not doing your job at the start of the Iraq War, I'm sure most Americans would be very happy to accept your apology. You and the other networks were willing partners with Bush, flying flags all over the TV screens and never asking the hard questions that you should have asked. You might have prevented a war. You might have saved the lives of those 3,610 soldiers who are no longer with us. Instead, you blew air kisses at a commander in chief who clearly was making it all up. Millions of us knew that -- why didn't you? I think you did. And, in my opinion, that makes you responsible for this war. Instead of doing the job the founding fathers wanted you to do -- keeping those in power honest (that's why they made it the FIRST amendment) -- you and much of the media went on the attack against the few public figures like myself who dared to question the nightmare we were about to enter. You've never thanked me or the Dixie Chicks or Al Gore for doing your job for you. That's OK. Just tell the truth from this point on.

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