Liberal Documentarians Are the Reel Majority
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4005-2004Jul21.html
Left-Leaning Films Get Box-Office Vote
By Tommy Nguyen
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, July 22, 2004; Page A01
In terms of its success, Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11" is in
uncharted territory. By next week it will probably surpass $100
million in domestic box-office revenues, nearly five times as much as
the next-highest-grossing documentary feature -- Moore's own "Bowling
for Columbine."
In terms of its politics, though, "Fahrenheit" is strictly par for the
course. At a time when the right-leaning Fox News Channel leads all
cable news channels, when radio airwaves resound with Rush Limbaugh
and Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham, when bookstores are piled high
with the pronouncements of Bill O'Reilly and Ann Coulter and Bernard
Goldberg, one form of nonfiction narrative remains determinedly
liberal: the documentary film.
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