Fahrenheit 9/11 external links

The following external links refer to news stories and commentary about Michael Moore's controversial documentary film, Fahrenheit 9/11:

• Jim Rutenberg , "Disney Forbidding Distribution of Film That Criticizes Bush," Common Dreams (originally published in the New York Times), May 4, 2004.
• "The Mouse Censors Moore," FAIR, May 6, 2004.
• Antonia Zerbisias, "Mickey Mouse Muzzles Moore and More," Toronto Star, May 6, 2004.
• Andrew Gumbel, "Michael Moore's an Angry Man, Again," Independent/UK, May 6, 2004.
• "Disney 'blocks' Moore documentary" and "UK will screen blocked Moore film," BBC/UK, May 6, 2004: "Michael Moore's new film Fahrenheit 911 will be screened in the UK despite its US release being blocked by Disney."
• Greg Palast, "Muzzling Michael, Muzzling Me," gregpalast.com, May 6, 2004.
• Michael Moore, "When You Wish Upon a Star," michaelmoore.com, May 7, 2004.
• "Weinsteins, Disney Reach Deal on 'Fahrenheit 9/11'," Reuters, May 12, 2004: "Miramax Films said on Wednesday it has reached a deal with Miramax's owners, the Walt Disney Co., allowing it to find a new distributor for director Michael Moore's controversial documentary Fahrenheit 9/11, which Disney refused to distribute."
• "At the start of the month it became clear that Disney, the parent company of Miramax - which made Fahrenheit 9/11 - was refusing to distribute it in the US." On May 17, 2004, Moore said that "The film currently has distribution ... in every other country except Taiwan." [1]
• Ian Youngs, "White House 'tried to block film'," BBC/UK, May 16, 2004.
• Ian Youngs, "Moore film shows 'US Iraqi abuse'," BBC/UK, May 17, 2004.
• Desson Thomson, "In Cannes, Michael Moore Says '9/11' Faces Exile," Washington Post, May 17, 2004.
• Paul Majendie "Director Moore Launches Anti-Bush Tirade at Cannes," Reuters, May 17, 2004.
• Ian Mohr, "Miramax Bosses Seek Complex 'Fahrenheit' Deal," Reuters, May 19, 2004.
• "Disney, Weinsteins Dealing on 'Fahrenheit 9/11'," Reuters, May 24, 2004: "Miramax chiefs Harvey and Bob Weinstein are close to buying Fahrenheit 9/11, the anti-Bush documentary that won the top prize at Cannes, from the Walt Disney Co., so that they can strike their own distribution deal, a person close to the matter said on Monday."
• Gary Younge, "Burning Bush: It won the Palme d'Or. Can Fahrenheit 9/11 win the American presidential election?, Guardian (UK), May 26, 2004. Younge reported that, "According to the Washington Post, Miramax Films has hired a team of hardened Democratic apparatchiks - including Hillary Clinton's former campaign press secretary, Howard Wolfson, top Al Gore adviser Michael Feldman and Clinton White House advisers Mark Fabiani and Chris Lehane - to help counter any Republican attacks on the film."
• Peter Henderson, “Michael Moore Film Nears Release as Disney Sells,” Common Dreams (originally published by Reuters), May 28, 2004.
• Gary Gentile, "Fahrenheit 9/11 finds domestic distributor," AP, June 1, 2004.
• Larry Beinhart, "Censorship isn’t Mickey Mouse stuff. Seeing the ‘invisible hand’ holding up distribution of Michael Moore’s new film is not a pretty sight," Newsday, June 2, 2004.
• Michael Moore, "Dude, Where's My Movie Playing?," AlterNet, June 18, 2004.
• Bill Berkowitz, "'Fahrenheit 9/11' on the Hot Seat", AlterNet, June 17, 2004.
• Christopher Hitchens, "Unfairenheit 9/11: The lies of Michael Moore", Slate, June 21, 2004. (Note that Hitchens makes no mention of the WMD justification for the invasion of Iraq.)
• Chris Parry, "Defending Truth: Slate's Chris Hitchens does a hatchet job on Michael Moore", June 2004
• Art Howard, "Chris Hitchens Couldn't Be "Moore" Wrong", June 2004
• Gary Strauss, "Moore's 'Fahrenheit' to keep its R rating", USA Today, June 22, 2004.
• Felicia R. Lee, "Group Says Ads for Moore's Film Violate Law," New York Times, June 25, 2004.
• "FEC complaint filed against 'Fahrenheit' ads", Associated Press, June 25, 2004.
• "Should the FEC ban ads for Fahrenheit 9/11?: Attack on 'Fahrenheit 9/11' shows 'Constitution is on fire' Badnarik says", e-thepeople, June 29, 2004.
• Howard Goodman, "Fahrenheit Riles and Rouses Theatergoers," South Florida Sun-Sentinel, June 29, 2004.
• Scott McCabe and Pamela Perez, "'Fahrenheit 9/11' fans gather, plot activism," Palm Beach Post, June 29, 2004.
• Fahrenheit 9/11: The temperature at which Michael Moore's pants burn, Spinsanity, July 2, 2004.
• Jerry Cobb, "'Fahrenheit 9/11' reshapes indie film world", MSNBC, July 19th, 2004
• Andrea Uhde, "'Fahrenheit 9/11' talk stirs up supporters," Virginian-Pilot (Hampton, VA), June 29, 2004.
• Gina McIntyre, "Documentary Films," Hollywood Reporter, June 29, 2004.
• Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball, "More Distortions From Michael Moore: Some of the main points in 'Fahrenheit 9/11' really aren't very fair at all", Newsweek, June 30, 2004.
• Craig Unger, "The Newsweek-Fahrenheit Wars, Part 3: How Many Mistakes Can Newsweek's Michael Isikoff Make?", www.michaelmoore.com, July 3, 2004 .
• Craig Unger, "Debating 'Fahrenheit 9/11'", Newsweek, July 5, 2004.
• Michael Moore, "My First Wild Week with "Fahrenheit 9/11"", www.michaelmoore.com, July 4th, 2004.
• Brent Bozell, "The Michael Moore Test", Human Events, July 6, 2004. Article attacking F/911's fairness and accuracy, by the founder of the right-wing Media Research Center.
• Shailegh Murray, "'Fahrenheit 9/11' Has Recruited Unlikely Audience: U.S. Soldiers", Wall Street Journal, July 12, 2004
• Charlotte Higgins, "Fahrenheit 9/11 breaks UK record", The Guardian, July 13, 2004.
• Garry Maddox, "Please, sir, they want some Moore", Sydney Morning Herald, July 20, 2004.
• Dave Kopel, Fifty-nine Deceits in Fahrenheit 911, Independence Institute, June 2004.