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Some of the cartoons MTV has produced:. In the book 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America by Bernard Goldberg, Moore is ranked number one on said list. Most of its other cartoons have lasted only for a single season, despite usually being original and creative. An episode of American Dad later depicted the opening of a new Michael Moore film in which he sleeps with Angelina Jolie on camera and Hailey leaves in disgust over Moore's "selling out.". MTV has a history of cartoons with mature themes, the most notable probably being Beavis and Butt-head, and its spin-off, Daria. In a September 2005 episode of the animated Family Guy series, titled The Perfect Castaway, Peter recalls a farting contest with Michael Moore that develops into a parody of the duelling banjo scene from Deliverance. However many people believe that MTV is liberal biased. The British television programme Dead Ringers featured a segment in its 2004 "US election special" entitled "Michael Moore takes on Michael Moore," in which a Michael Moore impersonator satirises Moore's documentary style and approach.

Presidential election, airing programs focused on the issues and opinions of young people, including a program where viewers could ask questions of Senator John Kerry on live TV. [29]. It covered the 2004 U.S. When interviewed by Kent Brockman, he offered statistics and then got belligerent when Brockman asked him for the statistics' source as proof of their accuracy. Other politically diverse programmes include True Life, which documents people's lives and problems, and shows an epilogue of after the show was shot; MTV News Specials, which centers on very current events in both the music industry and the world; and a lot of other shows based on the current times. Moore lent his voice to a parody of himself on The Simpsons; he was depicted as showing up to Springfield Elementary School in support of a student strike. The group ended up being caught in the midst of an attack outside of the hotel and were subsequently flown out of the country. In each scene the inscription on Moore's baseball cap gets progressively more self-righteous: "Hero", "Saint", "Martyr".

MTV aired a popular band's Sum 41 trip to the Democratic Republic of Congo, documenting the conflict there. In a 2003 skit, entitled "Bowling for Christmas", [28] Vogt as Moore angrily accuses Christmas shoppers of supporting terrorism and Santa Claus of exploiting child labor. presidential election (two years ago the network spent a large amount of time on the 2004 election), and war in other countries, among other topics. MADtv comedian Paul Vogt is noted for his impersonations of Moore. These shows include: "think MTV," which talks about current political issues such as gay marriage, the U.S. This war was not elected by the populace." In a similar vein, the parody film Fellowship 9/11 parodied Fahrenheit 9/11 using the Lord of the Rings films as its basis. After so many shots to the network about the content of programmes, they started showing a plethora of political and economic shows. This is a fictitious war.

The song Stinkfist by Tool was renamed "Track #1" since the title was considered "too offensive for public consumption" . Shame on you hobbits, shame on you. Also, the song "Four Kicks" by Kings of Leon has the words "guns" and "switchblade" censored in the chorus. Moore was depicted holding a camera amidst a battle (the Battle of the Pelennor Fields from The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King film), and shouting, "Stop this war. Edits include "45" by Shinedown (it is renamed "Starring Down" and a good portion of the chorus is edited to eliminate gun references), "We Are All On Drugs" by Weezer (It is renamed "We Are All In Love" and lyrics are changed from "On Drugs" to "In Love", and "Hash Pipe" by Weezer (the word "Hash" is obscured, and the vocal has been edited to sound like "Half"). The 2004 Academy Awards opened with a satirical short film in which the host, Billy Crystal, re-enacted the most memorable scenes of 2003. MTV has also heavily edited a number of music videos, frequently to remove references to drugs or weapons. Michael Moore asked the same question in Fahrenheit 9/11, except the responses he chose to air were "no".

The creators of Jackass often felt that MTV's producers did not let the show run its free course due to the excessive restraints under which they put the Jackass team. In an episode of the television show Arrested Development, 'The One Where Michael Leaves', an unnamed obese documentary film maker (revealed in a subsequent episode, 'Out on a Limb', to have been a Michael Moore impersonator doing a bit for Jimmy Kimmel Live) approaches Lucile asking if she would enlist her son in the military. This was most prevalent in the eventual decline of the hit show Jackass. [27]. MTV has also come under criticism for being far too politically correct and sensitive when it came to censorship. They opined that this created the false impression that Stone (and his colleague Trey Parker, who together are popular largely through being the creators of South Park) created the animation, which he saw as "retarded." Stone later states that he does not "really hate the guy". Afterwards the NFL indicated that MTV would not produce any further Super Bowl halftime shows, or any public event. The animation starts more than ten minutes after Stone’s interview—in-between them Moore interviews Marilyn Manson and a short commercial for a metal detector is shown).

This infamous halftime show featured the exposure of one of Janet Jackson's breasts, which was shown on live television. One of the makers of the film, Matt Stone, a fellow Michigan resident, later stated that this representation was in response to Moore's placement of a South Park-style animation after an interview with Stone in Moore's film Bowling for Columbine (the animation, in fact, does not take place directly after Stone's interview. The channel also faced criticism in the wake of the Super Bowl XXXVIII half time show — which it had produced. He is later described as a 'giant socialist weasel'. 1 Because of the criticism the channel received over this, both MTV and VH1 decided to show the whole 10-hour Live 8 concert again the following weekend, this time without any commercial breaks or VJ interruptions. In the 2004 satire film Team America: World Police, a marionette representation of Moore surfaces as a suicide bomber who blows up Team America's headquarters inside Mount Rushmore. MTV VJ's came onscreen to talk during the first guitar solo in "Comfortably Numb," then cut back for a few seconds before playing a commercial. When the host, Steve Martin, returned to the stage after Moore's speech, he joked: "It was so sweet backstage, the Teamsters are helping Michael Moore into the trunk of his limo." [26].

The epitome of this was the widely reported decision to cut to commercial during Pink Floyd's performance in London, which was bassist Roger Waters' first performance with the rest of the band since 1981. In commentary included on the DVD for Columbine, Moore indicated that the majority of the audience were cheering for him, prompting one or two boos from audience members, and that further booing was actually Moore's supporters responding to the one or two detractors who had become vocal in the audience. The broadcast of music was limited, as the network cut to its on-air personalities, celebrity interviews, and commercials in the middle of live acts. Moore repeated the part of his speech that had been cut short due to the orchestra starting to play music and his microphone being turned off, and gave the reason "I'm an American" in defense of his choice of acceptance speech. MTV and VH1 drew heavy criticism for their coverage of Live 8, the multinational concert of musical artists which raised awareness for African debt relief. In a backstage interview with Moore afterwards, he stated that the majority of the audience was cheering. The show also airs homosexual daters, which can be seen as controversial due to its open sexual nature that is open to viewers of various ages. The televised speech was met with a mixture of boos and applause from the audience.

There are also critics of MTV and their reality shows such as NEXT, the game dating show that demoralizes individuals by making the daters complete various tasks and games only to be "Nexted" when they were not pleasing enough because of their looks. Bush having started the 2003 invasion of Iraq:. It was also said by someone that 'MTV was porn for children!' (later in the evening and during the night, MTV tend to show slightly more adult-themed programming, most of the adult-themed programming was pornographic movies and shows). When Moore accepted the Oscar for Bowling for Columbine, he created a stir when he took the opportunity to state his point of view on President George W. There have also been some critics who have said that MTV promotes bad behavior (mainly premarital sex, war propaganda, and even recreational drug use) to the youth of America by embracing the behaviors of certain celebrities who are not good role models. Bowling for Columbine won the Oscar for Best Documentary as well as the first unanimous Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes, and Fahrenheit 9/11 won the People's Choice Award for Favorite Motion Picture (an unprecedented honor for a documentary film), as well as the Palme d'Or Best Picture at the Cannes Film Festival. Although it could be argued that MTV is simply giving airtime to the most popular acts in a given country, the counter-argument could also be made that these acts get popular simply because of the exposure that MTV gives them. His films Bowling for Columbine and Fahrenheit 9/11 debuted as the highest-grossing feature-length non-music nonfiction films of all time, the latter making over $120 million.

Critics also claim that bands sell well because they get a lot of exposure on MTV, rather than MTV picking the best bands to promote; and that MTV has too much influence in the music industry. Despite the controversy surrounding Moore and his work, he has had great critical and financial success as a filmmaker and writer. Ironically, the channel has also been criticized for lacking programming. These critics, such as in Hardy and Clarke's book as well as Peter Schweizer's, note that Davison, his childhood neighborhood, is a middle class community with better employment rates and higher incomes as opposed to the lower class status of larger Flint.[23] [24] However, those who reject this criticism note Moore's inconsistency in discussing his hometown, noting that he spoke of growing up in Davison in the Flint Voice in 1982, as well as point out Davison's proximity[25], as Davison is a suburb within 10 miles of Flint. MTV UK has also been attacked for over-use of on-screen graphics, such as logos, programme promotion and countdown timers, and its electronica-themed genre channel MTV Dance is often derided for playing a lack of dance music during the day, preferring a mix of pop-dance, pop, and R&B. Critics also note that he identifies himself as being from Flint, using Flint in his handle and signing e-mails as "The Man from Flint" [21] and mentioning it in the introductions he has written for books.[22]. MTV channel does occasionally play music videos (albeit rarely) instead of exclusively relegating them to their genre channels. [19] [20].

The primary U.S. Given Moore's frequent suggestion that rich people should be taxed at a higher rate, critics, including websites like MooreWatch, have accused him of hypocrisy for doing this. The same criticism has also been made of MTV in the USA, with its dearth of music videos, and its stronger focus on reality shows such as Road Rules, The Real World, Laguna Beach, and others as well. Although the reason for him doing this has never been identified, it is a quite common method of reducing property taxes. Videos are also often played between other shows and at night. In 2004, Moore transferred the deeds of his New York City home to a private corporation that was formed specifically for this purpose. Many argue, however, that as MTV runs nine music channels in the UK, it has delegated music videos to its genre channels in a bid to differentiate itself from the competition of the fourteen other music video-oriented channels. Anybody who knows me knows that, you know - who's gonna believe that? Just crazy people are going to believe it - crazy people who tune-in to the Fox News Channel." [17] [18].

MTV UK has recently been under fire as it no longer airs any daytime music videos, outside of parts of a few shows like Total Request Live and Making the Video, and focuses primarily on MTV produced reality shows such as The Osbournes and Punk'd. I know it's not true - I mean, I've never owned a share of stock in my life. As early as 1985, some musicians were criticizing MTV for these reasons, perhaps most famously Dead Kennedys with "MTV − Get off the Air". Moore stated on C-SPAN, "Michael Moore own Halliburton stock? See, that's like a great comedy line. Because of its visibility as a promotional tool for the recording industry, MTV has been criticized as overly commercial and accused of denigrating the importance of music in the music industry (replacing it with a purely visual aesthetic); this is an ongoing problem for punk and emo bands. In the Peter Schweizer book Do As I Say (Not As I Do): Profiles in Liberal Hypocrisy, Schweizer includes a tax return of Moore's showing that Moore and his wife are in control of a variety of stocks, among them such companies as Halliburton. This is in part because many young African-Americans prefer to watch BET rather than MTV. [16].

Subsequently, MTV delved heavily into black musical acts, developing several hip-hop music-themed programs such as Yo! MTV Raps, and got rid of MTV X to make room for MTV Jams. Their allegation is that he primarily includes interviews and speeches that are heavily edited to create a negative image of the subject being portrayed and present misleading or false facts. Shortly thereafter, the network began heavily featuring videos from Michael Jackson's album Thriller, in particular "Billie Jean" and "Thriller", and Prince's album 1999, in particular the videos for the title track and "Little Red Corvette". Hardy and Jason Clarke criticize Moore for, they allege, being untruthful in his film productions, especially with respect to Bowling for Columbine (the book's release predated Fahrenheit 9/11). MTV executives countered by claiming that there were few—if any—promotional videos available from black and other minority acts, although artists such as Diana Ross and The Jacksons had been making music videos before MTV existed. In their book Michael Moore Is a Big Fat Stupid White Man, David T. In its early years, MTV was criticized as racist, since the acts it featured were nearly exclusively white. Bush?".

MTV Networks and Viacom have launched numerous native-language MTV-branded music channels to countries worldwide. Get it, Mr. MTV recently broadcast a new Indian Pop Culture channel called MTV Desi and University-oriented channel mtvU. They are the REVOLUTION, the Minutemen, and their numbers will grow — and they will win. Viacom, parent company of the MTV Networks, is also behind VH1, which is aimed at celebrity and popular culture programming; and CMT, which targets the country music market. In a memo released on his personal website, Moore said "The Iraqis who have risen up against the occupation are not 'insurgents' or 'terrorists' or 'The Enemy'. The advent of digital satellite and cable has also brought greater diversity including channels such as MTV2, which features the slogan "Where The Music's At." In the U.S., MTV2 initially focused on playing music videos and other music-related programming exclusively; in Europe, MTV2 plays specific genres of music (mainly alternative and rock). A recent controversy surrounds Michael Moore's public comments about the Iraq insurgency and terrorists.

In November 2004, MTV announced it would begin airing in February 2005 MTV Base in Africa, [2] thereby reaching the world's last major populated area previously not served by MTV. These same critics have pointed out that, at a time when the people of the United States, including both major political parties, were coming together following the attacks, Moore was still focused on the electoral politics of 2000. In 2004, MTV's parent company Viacom bought Germany's largest provider for music television Viva Media AG, thereby creating the largest company for music on the European mainland. If someone did this to get back at Bush, then they did so by killing thousands of people who DID NOT VOTE for him! Boston, New York, DC, and the planes' destination of California — these were places that voted AGAINST Bush!" This has been interpreted by some critics as Moore implying that an attack against areas that had voted for Bush would have been justifiable. In the fall of 2004, Ozzy Osbourne's reality show Battle for Ozzfest aired. They did not deserve to die. The success of Newlyweds was followed in June 2004 by The Ashlee Simpson Show, which documented the beginnings of the music career of Ashlee Simpson, Jessica Simpson's younger sister. This just is not right.

It has run for three seasons. On September 12th, 2001, the day after the September 11th terrorist attacks against New York City and Washington, DC, Michael Moore posted a message on his website that included the passage (since redacted from the message on the site): "Many families have been devastated tonight. In 2003, Newlyweds, another popular reality TV show that follows the lives of Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey, a music celebrity couple, began. The conservative evangelical Christian group Focus on the Family urged a letter writing campaign directed at Michael Moore and published his home address in a July 2004 newsletter. television. The caustic tone of these criticisms quickly drew counter-criticisms from OpEdNews.com articles like Deception; Desperate Right Wing Attacks on Fahrenheit 9/11 and How Many Lies Can Christopher Hitchens Tell? as well as an eFilmCritic article Defending Truth: Slate's Chris Hitchens does a hatchet job on Michael Moore and a Columbus Free Press editorial. The show went on to become one of the network's biggest ever success stories and kick-started a musical career for Kelly Osbourne, while Sharon Osbourne went on to host a talk show on U.S. Dave Kopel has compiled a list of alleged deceits in Fahrenheit 9/11, and Slate.com's Christopher Hitchens compiled a similar list.

In 2002, MTV aired the first episode of another reality show, The Osbournes, based on the everyday life of former, Black Sabbath frontman Ozzy Osbourne, his wife Sharon, and two of their children, Jack and Kelly. Moore's style has also come under fire from those who claim that when making his films, he unfairly edits and re-sequences events in order to twist or misrepresent the words of his targets or interviewees. The show ran for three seasons and spawned numerous imitations, including the currently running Fear Factor on NBC. The feature-length essayed form was pioneered by Nick Broomfield and was adopted by documentarians such as Louis Theroux, who himself worked with Moore on Michael Moore's TV Nation. In 2000, MTV's Fear became the first 'scary' reality show where contestants filmed themselves. This is a potential criticism from more traditionalist documentary makers, who prefer a more observational style in which the filmmaker remains hidden behind the camera. By the second half of the 1990s, MTV programming consisted primarily of non-music programming. Moore's documentary style is an involved, essayed form, as much about Moore himself and his opinion as they are about the subject at the heart of the film.

MTV started off showing music videos nearly full-time, but as time passed they introduced a variety of other shows, including animated cartoons such as Beavis and Butt-head and Daria; "reality" shows such as The Real World and Road Rules; prank/comedic shows such as The Tom Green Show, Jackass, and Punk'd; and soap operas such as Undressed. These include the films Michael Moore Hates America, Celsius 41.11, and FahrenHYPE 9/11. Today, MTV Networks also owns Nickelodeon, a cable channel airing children's and family programming. With Moore's success, there have been some works criticising his books and films. VH1 featured more popular music than MTV. [15]. After MTV's programming shifted towards heavy metal and rap music, MTV Networks launched a second network, Video Hits 1 (VH-1), in 1985. Two weeks later, after her opinion piece was adopted by the right-wing, Yasmin wrote another piece saying that although she objected to Moore's "crass remarks", she supported his stance on guns and the Iraq war.

In 1992, the network would add a movie award show with similar success. [14]. Seen as a fit of self-indulgence by a fledgling network at the time, the "VMAs" developed into a music-industry showcase marketed as a hip antidote to the Grammy awards. Writing in The Independent she said she was enraged when Moore said, during an appearance on stage in London, that the plane passengers on 9/11 were "scaredy-cats" because they were mostly white; that if there had been more black people on the flights they would have "crushed" the hijackers. In 1984 the network produced its first MTV Video Music Awards show. On 6 January 2003, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown criticized Moore for perpetuating stereotypes of black people. Madonna rose to fame on MTV in the 1980s, and to this day continues to use the network to promote her music. However, Moore's supporters have described these attacks as hypocritical, pointing out that public figures of Moore's stature (including many of his critics) are often paid much higher honoraria by sponsors for their appearances and very few of them are on record as having donated the money to the causes they support [13].

Michael Jackson launched the second wave of his career as an MTV staple. Moore has been criticized by some conservatives for the public speaking fees he receives. 1980s bands immediately identifiable with MTV include Eurythmics, RATT, Culture Club, Def Leppard, Duran Duran and Bon Jovi. Moore responded, saying Fahrenheit 451 is the temperature at which paper catches fire but that Fahrenheit 9/11 is the temperature at which freedom burns. A large number of rock stars of the 1980s and 1990s were made into household names by MTV. Ray Bradbury has also complained about Moore's adaptation of his Fahrenheit 451 title without permission [12], calling him a "screwed asshole." However, such permission is not legally required and Bradbury himself is the author of several books whose titles are taken from works by other writers. Several noted film directors got their start creating music videos, including Spike Jonze, Michel Gondry, and David Fincher. [11].

The early music videos that made up the bulk of the network's programming in the '80s were often crude promotional or concert clips from whatever sources could be found; as the popularity of the network rose, and record companies recognized the potential of the medium as a tool to gain recognition and publicity, they began to create increasingly elaborate clips specifically for the network. Moore denied that this was done in the film, but is said to have slightly corrected the text for the DVD release. The term VJ (video jockey) was coined, a play on the term DJ (disc jockey.) Many VJs eventually became celebrities in their own right. In Bowling for Columbine, on-screen text was allegedly altered in a Bush-Quayle campaign ad, and footage edited into it from a non-campaign ad, in order to make it seem racist. Fresh-faced young men and women were hired to host the show's programming, and to introduce videos that were being played. Similar allegations of deceptive editing, staging or scripting scenes, or altering the original intent of the speaker in the video have also been made by critics about Moore's film Bowling for Columbine [10]. The early format of the network was modeled after Top 40 radio. Moore set up a rebuttal "war room" [8] to support the content in Fahrenheit 9/11 and counter criticisms [9].

(With similar tongue-in-cheek humor, the first video shown on MTV Europe was "Money for Nothing," by Dire Straits, which starts and finishes with repetition of the line "I want my MTV," voiced by Sting; on MTV Latino, the first video shown was "We Are Southamerican Rockers" by the Chilean band Los Prisioneros.). government. It went to air with the words, "Ladies and gentlemen, rock and roll!" Appropriately, the first music video shown on MTV was "Video Killed the Radio Star" by The Buggles (often wrongly attributed to one of their contemporaries with a similar name, The Bangles). While it gathered generally favorable reviews from movie critics [7] and many awards, some opponents described the film as a deceptive and inaccurate portrayal of the U.S. MTV started in New York City but was available in most of the United States by the mid-1980s with the nationwide expansion of cable. Moore's body of work has attracted a great deal of criticism and praise, especially after the release of his film Fahrenheit 9/11 in 2004. [1]. With the 2004 election over, Moore continues to collect information on the War in Iraq and the Bush administration.

The programming was created by the visionary music producer, Bob Pittman, who later became president and chief executive officer, of MTV Networks. The event was chronicled in the documentary film This Divided State.. At midnight on August 1, 1981, the format was changed to music video (using a concept originally devised and sold to Warner Amex by Michael Nesmith, previously a member of the hit pop band The Monkees), and the name was changed to "MTV—Music Television". Death threats, bribes and lawsuits followed. The popularity of the channel prompted Warner Amex to market the channel nationally to other cable services. A fight for his right to speak ensued and resulted in massive public debates and a media blitz. One of these specialized channels was Sight On Sound, a music channel that featured concert footage and music oriented TV programs; with the interactive Qube service, viewers could vote for their favorite songs and artists. Quite possibly the most controversial stop during the tour was Utah Valley State College in Orem, Utah.

The Qube system offered many specialized channels, including a children's channel called Pinwheel which would later become Nickelodeon. John Kerry eventually won the state of Michigan by 3%. MTV's roots can be traced back to 1977, when Warner-Amex Cable (a joint venture between Warner Communications and American Express) launched the first two-way interactive cable TV system, Qube, in Columbus, Ohio. Nonetheless, the generally increased turnout in the election ensured that the percentage of youth voting was little different than in 2000, albeit at a higher numerical level. . Large numbers of young adults registered to vote, and by a strong percentage voted for John Kerry (Kerry 54%, Bush 44%). In the 90's, MTV was often considered to be the driving force in American pop culture, but this influence has dramatically declined. The "Underwear" tour was a popular success.

MTV's combination of music videos, youthful video jockeys, irreverent commentary, promotion of special rock concerts, and news and documentaries about bands and performers established the network's popularity with youthful viewers, and it became a leading promoter of new rock music and rock musicians. This provoked public denunciations from the Michigan Republican Party and attempts to convince the government that Moore should be arrested for buying votes, but since Moore did not tell the 'slackers' involved whom to vote for, just to vote, district attorneys refused to get involved. In 1985, it was acquired by Viacom Inc., and was folded into MTV Networks, becoming a wholly owned subsidiary. The tour gave away ramen and underwear to people who promised to vote. The network was founded on August 1, 1981 as an operation of Warner-Amex Satellite Entertainment, a joint venture of Warner Communications and American Express. During September and October 2004, Moore spoke at universities and colleges in swing states during his "Slacker Uprising Tour". Originally devoted to music videos, especially popular rock music, MTV later became an outlet for a variety of different material aimed at adolescents and young adults. Moore wrote a daily column chronicling his impressions of the convention in USA Today.

MTV: Music Television is a young adult cable television network headquartered in New York City. Moore also attended the 2004 Republican National Convention, where he was criticized (and promptly booed by the audience) in a speech by Senator John McCain as "a disingenuous film-maker". The opening track on Pantera's "The Great Southern Trendkill" song with the same name include the lyrics, "Buy it at a store, From MTV to on the floor, You look just like a star, It's proof you dont know who you are.". Moore was a high-profile guest at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, prominently seated in a box with former President Jimmy Carter and his wife. XLR was directed by Chris Prynoski, a former MTV animator whose own show (Downtown) had been cancelled by MTV years ago. Also, during an October 27 stop in Portland, OR, Moore called the private phone number of radio host Lars Larson, given to him by a member of the audience. Cartoon series Megas XLR frequently features the destruction of billboards and other paraphernilia for a group called "PoP TV", whose symbol is clearly based on the MTV Logo. Bush military service controversy).

Lyrics to Beck's "MTV Makes Me Wanna Smoke Crack" include "MTV makes me wanna burn flesh!/Having an orgy down in the satellite dish!". Moore drew attention when charging publicly that Bush was AWOL during his service in the National Guard (see George W. Lyrics to Reel Big Fish's "Don't Start A Band" include "And even if you make itall the way to MTV/I don't think you could take it all the bullshit and the greed.". (Moore joined Bill Maher on the latter's television show in kneeling before Nader to plead with him to stay out of the race.) Although Moore has claimed he is not a Democrat (although he registered as a Democrat in 1992 [6]), on January 14, Moore endorsed General Wesley Clark for the Democratic nomination. Lyrics to Manowar's "Blow Your Speakers" include "Wrote a letter to the MTV/What’s goin’ on now/Don’t ya care about me.". In the 2004 election, Moore changed his mind about Nader and urged him not to run, so as not to split the liberal vote and permit George Bush to be re-elected. Bowling for Soup's "1985," contains the line, "Bring back Springsteen, Madonna, way before Nirvana there was U2 and Blondie, and music still on MTV.". He has said in an interview that his intention was to run for president of the organization and dismantle it after winning.

The song "MTV − Get off the Air" by the Dead Kennedys was a protest against the content and style of music that dominated MTV during the '80s. Moore became a lifetime member of the National Rifle Association after the Columbine High School Massacre. The declining popularity of MTV was noted as Bart scrawled "I no longer want my MTV" in a Simpsons' season 9 chalkboard gag; a parody of Dire Straits' 1985 song "Money for Nothing.". In exchange for jumping in the show's "traveling mosh pit," Republican Alan Keyes won the endorsement of Moore's television series The Awful Truth in 2000, although Moore does not endorse Keyes' views. George Michael's "Freedom '90" makes reference to the pressures the network placed on visual image: "I went back home, got a brand new face / For the boys at MTV". He left Nader's employment on bad terms, but Moore vociferously supported Nader's campaign for the United States presidency in 2000. "Habla Tu MTV". After Moore's departure from Mother Jones, he became an employee of Ralph Nader.

"MTV Ayos" (MTV Philippines). Moore has authored three best-selling books:. "MTV Gue Banget"(MTV indonesia,2001-present). He also directed the music videos for System of a Down's "Boom!" and "All the Way to Reno" from R.E.M.. "Nongkrong di MTV" (Slogan in MTV Asia for MTV Indonesia before MTV Indonesia aired (1997-2001). [5]. "MTV Enjoy". He was threatened with arrest during the shooting of "Sleep Now in the Fire", which was filmed on Wall Street; the city of New York had denied the band permission to play there, even though the band and Moore had secured a federal permit to perform.

"Just See MTV". Moore has directed several music videos, including two for Rage Against the Machine for songs from "The Battle of Los Angeles": "Sleep Now in the Fire" and "Testify". "Best Watch Your MTVs". Hefner First Amendment Award in Arts and Entertainment, for being the executive producer and host of The Awful Truth, where he was also described as "muckraker, author and documentary filmmaker.". "Not on TV, on M-TV". In 1999 Moore won the Hugh M. "Think". The show was performed around midday local time, which due to the time difference made it a late-night show in the UK.

Best watch your MTV's". This show had a similar format to The Awful Truth but also incorporated phone-ins and a live stunt each week. "Don't let Jerry Win. Another 1999 series, Michael Moore Live was aired in the UK only on Channel 4, though it was broadcast from New York. "I Like..." (MTV Asia). It aired in 1999 and 2000. The fact that since then MTV has played very little music may also add to why this slogan was dropped.). His other series was The Awful Truth, which satirized actions by big corporations and politicians.

"The Number One Music Channel" (slogan used for MTV UK from 2000 to 2002 as the channel broadcasts on digital cable and digital satellite, the slogan was axed in 2003. The series was aired on NBC in 1994 for 9 episodes and again for 8 episodes on FOX in 1995. "I love my MTV". Between 1994 and 1995 he directed and hosted the television series TV Nation, which followed the format of news magazine shows but covered topics they avoid. "MT-blah: Blah-blah Tele-blah". Moore expects to complete Fahrenheit 9/11½ in 2006 or 2007. "MTV News: You Hear it First". We're communicators, and it's up to us to start doing it now."[4] The sequel, like the original, will concern the war in Iraq and terrorism.

"M-m-m-m T-t-t-t V-v-v-v". They weren't told the truth. "Watch and Learn". He said, "Fifty-one percent of the American people lacked information [in this election], and we want to educate and enlighten them. "Some People Just Don't Get It". Fahrenheit 9/11½ (pre-production): On November 11, 2004 Moore told the Hollywood trade publication Daily Variety that he is also planning a sequel to Fahrenheit 9/11. "MTV Lives In Your Music". [2] [3].

Proud as a Moon Man" ("Weird Al" Yankovic's spoof of NBC's 1979-1981 slogan Proud as a Peacock). At least two major pharmaceutical companies, Pfizer and GlaxoSmithKline, have ordered their employees not to grant any interviews to Moore. "MTV.. Sicko (filming): Moore is currently working on a film about the American healthcare system from the viewpoint of mental healthcare, focusing particularly on the managed-care and pharmaceutical industries, under the working title Sicko. "I want my MTV". The title of the film alludes to the classic book Fahrenheit 451 (about a future totalitarian state in which books are banned; paper begins to burn at 451 degrees Fahrenheit) and the pre-release subtitle of the film confirms the allusion: "The temperature at which freedom burns." At the box office, Fahrenheit 9/11 remains by far the highest-grossing documentary of all time, taking in close to $200 million worldwide, including domestic box office revenue of $120 million. 3 South. Moore also said he wanted to be supportive of his "teammates in non-fiction film." However, Fahrenheit received no Oscar nomination for Best Picture.

Liquid Television. Since November 2 was less than nine months after the film's release, it would be disqualified for the Documentary Oscar. Spy Groove. He stated he wanted the movie to be seen by a few million more people, preferably on television, by election day. The Maxx. Moore later announced that Fahrenheit 9/11 would not be in consideration for the 2005 Academy Award for Documentary Feature, but instead for the Academy Award for Best Picture. Æon Flux. Fahrenheit was awarded the Palme d'Or, the top honor at the Cannes Film Festival; it was the first documentary film to win the prize since 1956.

Cartoon Sushi. Bush and Osama bin Laden. Undergrads. Fahrenheit 9/11: Fahrenheit 9/11 examines America in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, particularly the record of the Bush administration and alleged links between the families of George W. Quads!. It was praised by most critics for illuminating a subject slighted by the mainstream media, but it was attacked by some opponents who claim it is inaccurate and misleading in its presentations and suggested interpretations of events. Downtown. It also enjoyed great commercial and critical success for a film of its type and became, at the time, the highest-grossing mainstream-released documentary (a record now held by Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11).

Daria. In the United States, it won the 2002 Academy Award for Documentary Feature. Clone High. Bowling for Columbine won the Anniversary Prize at the Cannes Film Festival and France's Cesar Award as the Best Foreign Film. Celebrity Deathmatch. Bowling for Columbine: Moore's 2002 film Bowling for Columbine, probes the culture of guns and violence in the States. Beavis and Butt-head. Among others, he targeted Nike for outsourcing shoe production to Indonesia.

The Big One: In 1997, Moore directed The Big One, which documents the tour publicizing his book Downsize This! Random Threats from an Unarmed American, where he criticized mass layoffs despite record corporate profits. The film was one of the last featuring Canadian-born actor John Candy. Canadian Bacon: In 1995, Moore released a satirical film, Canadian Bacon, which featured a fictional US president (played by Alan Alda) engineering a fake war with Canada in order to boost his popularity. The influence of Rafferty, who co-directed the 1982 cult classic documentary film The Atomic Café, can be seen in Moore's satirical use of archival footage taken from vintage B-movies, television commercials, and newsreels that has since become a hallmark of his documentaries.

Bush. Moore was largely taught the craft of filmmaking by his cinematographer Kevin Rafferty, who is ironically also a first cousin of President George W. The documentary was an extremely ambitious undertaking for someone who had never attended film school or worked in any capacity in the movie industry. Smith, former CEO and president of General Motors.

"Roger" is Roger B. Since then Moore has been known as a critic of the neoliberal view of globalization. Roger & Me: Moore first became famous for his controversial 1989 film Roger & Me, a documentary about what happened to Flint, Michigan, after General Motors closed its factories and opened new ones in Mexico, where the workers were paid much less. He also dabbled in acting, following a supporting role as a perverted man-child who agrees to be part of the scheme concocted by John Travolta and Lisa Kudrow in Lucky Numbers (2000).

Moore and his family live in a $1 million apartment in New York City. Since 1990, Moore has been married to producer Kathleen Glynn (born April 10, 1958 in Flint), with whom he has one daughter, Natalie (born 1981). Some of this money provided partial funding for his first film project, Roger and Me. But he finally accepted a settlement of $58,000--the amount of anticipated trial costs--from the magazine's insurance company.

[1] Moore later sued for wrongful dismissal, seeking $2 million. In 2003, the Star-Ledger printed an opinion piece by Paul Mulshine where he quoted Paul Berman who stated that Moore had been fired, following a series of clashes with people on the magazine's staff, which included a dispute over Moore's refusal to publish an article by Berman that was mildly critical of the Sandinistas' human rights record, a piece the magazine, before Moore's arrival, had commissioned. In 1986, when Moore became the editor of Mother Jones, a liberal political magazine, he moved to California and the Voice was shut down. After dropping out of University of Michigan-Flint (where he was majoring in fictional influences in literature and wrote for the student newspaper entitled The Michigan Times), at 22 he founded the alternative weekly magazine The Flint Voice (which soon changed its name to The Michigan Voice).

For his Eagle Project, he filmed a documentary pointing out various safety hazards and issues within his community. Michael Moore is also an Eagle Scout, which is the highest rank awarded by the Boy Scouts in the United States, and an achievement of which he is still very proud. By the end of his term both had resigned. That same year, he ran for and won a seat on the Davison school board on a platform based on firing the high school's principal, John B McKenna, and vice principal, Kanje Cohen.

He then attended Davison High School, where he was active in both drama and debate, graduating in 1972. Moore, an Irish American, was brought up a Roman Catholic and attended a Diocesan seminary at age 14. His uncle was one of the founders of the United Automobile Workers labor union and was part of the famous Flint Sit-Down Strike. At the time, Flint was home to many General Motors factories, where his mother was a secretary, and both his father and grandfather were employed.

Michael Moore was born in Flint, Michigan, and grew up in a suburb called Davison. . Bush administration. He is widely known for his outspoken, critical views of big corporations, gun violence, and his critique of the incumbent George W.

Michael Moore (born April 23, 1954) is an American film director, author, and social commentator. And 92 percent of us don't own a passport."[31]. National Geographic produced a survey which showed that 60 percent of 18-25 year olds don't know where Great Britain is on a map. Our stupidity is embarrassing.

We don't know about anything that's happening outside our country. We Americans suffer from an enforced ignorance. in thrall to conniving, thieving, smug pricks. Describing Americans to the Daily Mirror, "They are possibly the dumbest people on the planet..

When asked what he thought about when he was called a traitor, he responded, “I’m an Eagle Scout and I’m overweight.” [30]. You weren't threatened; I wasn't being threatened, and that's the only time, because ultimately if it was your child…would you give up your child to secure Fallujah?"
— On the television program Late Night with Conan O'Brien, June 25, 2004. I think most Americans — I just saw the latest poll today — 54% now believe that [invading Iraq] wasn't the wisest thing to do — it wasn't certainly in self-defense. And the agreement that they make with us is that we never send them into harm's way unless it is absolutely necessary.

"Our young people who go off to war and who join the service, we need to honor them because they're willing to risk their lives to protect us, to defend us, so we can have this way of life. The Awful Truth (1999). TV Nation (1994). Fahrenheit 9/11½ (projected for 2007).

Sicko (projected for 2006). Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) "Palme d'Or" in Cannes. Bowling for Columbine (2002). Lucky Numbers (2000).

And Justice for All (1998). The Big One (1997). Canadian Bacon (1995). Pets or Meat: The Return to Flint (1992) (TV).

Roger & Me (1989). ISBN 0743272927. Simon & Schuster. The Official Fahrenheit 9/11 Reader.

Moore, Michael (2004). ISBN 0743271521. Simon & Schuster. Will They Ever Trust Us Again?.

Moore, Michael (2004). ISBN 0446532231. Warner Books. Dude, Where's My Country?.

Moore, Michael (2003). ISBN 0060392452. Regan Books. Stupid White Men ...and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation!.

Moore, Michael (2002). ISBN 0060988096. Perennial. Adventures In A TV Nation.

Moore, Michael; & Glynn, Kathleen (1998). ISBN 0060977337. Perennial (Harper Edition). Downsize This! Random Threats from an Unarmed American.

Moore, Michael (1996). Dude, Where's My Country? (2003), an examination of the Bush family's relationships with Saudi royalty, the Bin Laden family, and the energy industry, and a call-to-action for liberals in the 2004 election. Stupid White Men (2001), a critique of American domestic and foreign policy, and. Downsize This! (1996), about politics and corporate crime in the United States,.