Foreign press perspectives

Nice analysis of the Michael Moore flap and Hollywood's mostly patriotic fare by a New Zealand writer, Cass Avery. And in The Age (Australia), Michael Moore explains his outburst.

We are continually bombarded with one fictitious story after another from the Bush White House. And that is why it is important that filmmakers make non-fiction, so that all the little lies can be exposed and the public informed. An uninformed public in a democracy is a sure-fire way to end up with little or no democracy at all.

I still think it was obnoxious. But sometimes there's a place for that, too.