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  • From: burnett AT pobox.com
  • To: "Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [internetworkers] not about 9/11, conspiracies, or Freedom
  • Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 16:36:05 -0400 (EDT)

On Fri, 22 Sep 2006, matusiak wrote:

1) I never stated that I believed wholeheartedly in every single data
point exhibited in the "Loose Change" film, I only stated that it was
the best movie of the year. Had I mentioned that "Mission Impossible
III" was the best movie of the year, I doubt you would be challenging
me to go "chase down the facts" and prove everything that was
displayed in that film.

Dave:

I believe that the first film you mention was presented as a documentary and a work of non-fiction, and the the second film you mention was a work of fiction. Different standards of truthiness apply to fiction and non-fiction, in my view, and at least for me, the percentage of relevant verifiable facts in a film shown as a documentary affects my opinion of the quality of a documentary. Your bringing _Mission Impossible: III_ into your response seems irrelevant to me.

For a parallel instance, the main point made by the judge in his ruling on the plagiarism case between the (2 of the 3) authors of _Holy Blood, Holy Grail_ and Dan Brown's _The Da Vinci Code_ was that Brown published his novel as fiction, and the trio of Baigent, Lincoln and Leigh (1 of the 3 chose to not be involved, but I don't remember which one) published their work as non-fiction. The judge's ruling fixed on the difference between the two, fiction and non-, as the central basis for ruling in favor of Brown.

I'm not commenting on the film _Loose Change_ itself, or on your other two responses in this email, but this first point in your response doesn't work for me, and this is why it doesn't.

later,
Steve B




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