{"id":1080,"date":"2004-06-25T23:15:00","date_gmt":"2004-06-25T23:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=1080"},"modified":"2018-08-13T14:39:03","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T19:39:03","slug":"1080","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/06\/25\/1080\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Calls Him a Critic?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Williams, of the <i>St. Louis Post-Dispatch<\/i>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/entertainment\/reviews.nsf\/Movie\/9868EBC11888D88286256EBD00398D40?OpenDocument&#038;Headline=%22Fahrenheit+9%2F11%22+goes+to+war+against+Bush\" target=\"new\">wrecks his brain on <i>Farenheit 9\/11<\/i><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I wracked my brain for a clever way to introduce this fiercely entertaining documentary. But instead I&#8217;ll begin with a straightforward appeal to see this film &#8211; and do it quickly.<\/p>\n<p>Before most Americans get a chance to judge the film for themselves, they will be overwhelmed by counterspin and noisy attacks against Michael Moore, the director of this openly partisan document. But the smart-alecky fellow, who has often offended his own supporters by wielding his camera like a squirt gun, has his own ammunition ready.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Because the consumer will be overwhelmed by <b><i>counter<\/i><\/b>spin to the &#8220;documentary&#8221; before he or she can see the movie, Williams launches some preemptive spin.  Because the message of the movie is more important than its artistry, beauty, or truth.<\/p>\n<p>Everybody&#8217;s a critic, except for Joe Williams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Williams, of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, wrecks his brain on Farenheit 9\/11: I wracked my brain for a clever way to introduce this fiercely entertaining documentary. But instead I&#8217;ll begin with a straightforward appeal to see this film &#8211; and do it quickly. Before most Americans get a chance to judge the film for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1080"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23163,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080\/revisions\/23163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}