When You Wish Upon A Star... by Michael Moore

When You Wish Upon A Star... by Michael Moore

May 7th, 2004

Friends,

Thank you for all the incredible letters of support as my film crew and I once again slog our way through the corporate media madhouse. Does it ever end? Are we ever going to get control of our "free press" again? Can you wish upon a star?

The Disney spin machine has been working overtime dealing with this censorship debacle of theirs. I don't think they thought they would ever be outed. After all, they know that all of us are supposed to adhere to the unwritten Hollywood Code: Never tell the public how business is done here, never let them have a peek at the man behind the curtain.

Disney has been hoping for nearly a year that they could keep this thing quiet. As I promised on Wednesday, here are the details behind my sordid adventure with the Magic Kingdom:
( Click here for the full story )

Yours,

Michael Moore
http://www.michaelmoore.com

mmflint@aol.com

P.S. Be sure to check out yesterday's New York Times Editorial, "Disney's Craven Behavior"

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/06/opinion/06THU4.html?ex=1084420800&en=dd695e1433b69ff3&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE

The tide is turning. America is against the war

On Feb. 27 1968, Cronkite anchored a CBS special on the Vietnam War, concluding that: "To say that we are closer to victory today is to believe, in the face of the evidence, the optimists who have been wrong in the past. To say that we are mired in a bloody stalemate seems the only realistic, yet unsatisfactory conclusion." Bill Moyers, at the time President Lyndon Johnson's press secretary, reported later that Cronkite's statement led Johnson to believe that, if he had lost Cronkite's support, he had lost the support of middle America.

The equivalent has happened, but from an unlikely source: http://www.tompaine.com/feature2.cfm/ID/10353