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| Saturday, June 26, 2004 |
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Travel Day 
| | I'm off to Boston. See ya there. |
Moore Jeffs
| | So I just turned on the TV here in my hotel room, and what should I see but Jeff Jarvis, telling Aaron Brown and Jeff Greenfield that Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 was inexcusably bad, both in its facts and its methods; that in an age when Us-vs.-Them mentality is ruining the world, Moore makes a Them, an enemy, of a part of Us. Jeff J's argument pushed Jeff G to defend the movie as political theater, recalling how various founding fathers were also accused of terrible venalities, excusing Moore's fact-shading and partisan nastiness by categorizing it as an honorably rooted political tradition. (Or, by translation to The Media, as entertainment.) |
| | Jeff J sided with civility and civilization, with honest dialogue, with partisanship subordinated to open-mindedness. In other words, to the best of what we try to build here in the blogosphere. |
| | On the other side, Jeff G sided with television. |
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