CNN’s response to Michael Moore, who was apparently upset at their coverage of his film, SiCKO:

POINT NO. 8:

FROM MOORE’S WEB SITE:

CNN: “But no matter how much Moore fudged the facts, and he did fudge some facts…”

“The Truth” (from Michael Moore’s Web site):

This is libel. There is not a single fact that is “fudged” in the film. No one has proven a single fact in the film wrong. We expect CNN to correct their mistakes on the air and to apologize to their viewers.

CNN RESPONSE:

Gupta believes picking and comparing numbers from different places and times to suit an argument is not the best approach to a complicated issue like this one. Again, as pointed out earlier, by mixing types of data and time periods in some of Moore’s comparisons, Gupta felt that the film effectively fudged points that could have been made just as compellingly by comparing data from the same source and time period.

The entire exchange is worth a read, especially since I don’t remember Moore’s previous film, Fahrenheit 9/11, coming under this sort of scrutiny from the mainstream press. I remember other independent films being made (such as Fahrenhype 9/11) to counter that one, but I don’t remember any mainstream media analyzing it in quite the same way that CNN apparently has done with SiCKO.