Fortunately I don’t have to answer for the Economist’s review.

I didn’t see Fahrenheit 411 and I didn’t review it either. From the other Moore films I’ve seen, I’d say Moore is a different case. He’s basically playing for laughs. He is aiming at a much larger audience (democrats and soft republicans, rather than pseudo-intellectuals) He doesn’t have any pretences of making a complex argument.

The film will be watched by the same people who buy Chomsky’s books but never actually read them. What are these people supposed to take away from the movie? It talks about a bunch of bad things that undoubtedly happened and are still happening, but it has no clear message about what should be done about them.