Mike Moore’s Sicko
Blogged on June 21st, 2007 at 1:54amWho else has seen Sicko by Michael Moore? *raises hand* I have. It’s pretty good, and it does appear to be loaded with facts until you get to the bit about his hate site. I emailed JimK (www.moorewatch.com webmaster) expressing my (mostly negative) opinion of him. A few hours later I received a typically arsey email back from him, but honestly, putting me back in my place. It seems Moore is not only good at sailing boats into Cuba and filming controversial documentaries, but he’s also pretty good at editing bits out and withholding facts to twist certain stories. Although in all honesty, the only bit that he twisted (to my knowledge, at least) was a personal attack on JimK.
I guess all journalism (if you’d like to call it that - Moore seems to like calling the film that) has to be somewhat controversial. I’m not sure what it’s all like in America, living under the “safe” hands of the BBC who prides themselves on their honesty, fairness and impartiality, but it seems most things there have a certain degree of blatant bias towards them. How does one now define journalism nowadays?
Completely missing the point, Sicko is a film exposing the corruption inside the American health system. For those who don’t know much about America’s health system, they use insurance instead of a national health service like most other countries do. Infact, even Cuba does. As does France, a worldwide renowned country for their high standards of medical care.
After watching it I came to the conclusion that putting seperate profitable businesses directly in charge of the most precious thing human existence is fabricated out of - life - is quite a bad idea. At the end of the day the documentary promotes the idea that, to cut to the chase, a dead person is the insurance company’s profit.
Mike Moore has been known to have strong anti Bush opinions, but then again who doesn’t? After watching the film I think it would be a good idea for the system to go under independent review. But then again, there’s no real independence in such a supposedly corrupt country like America.
If you’ve not heard, Mike Moore is virtually endorsing sharing Sicko over BitTorrent. Look out for it on your favourite torrent site - mine was about 700mb. It’s definitely worth the watch if you want some controversial material, or if you’re just a tad political.