It's so easy to believe what you hear on the news
I forget where, now, but somewhere I had seen or heard that many of the numbers and facts in Michael Moore's Bowling for Columbine were inaccurate. Not only did I believe this, but I repeated it, telling friends and family that Moore didn't always do such a good job of fact checking.

Today I see that Moore has persuasively responded to his critics. And so my beliefs change again. Note that, through these personal flip-flops, I have not consulted any original sources - not that it would be possible for the average citizen to do so while going about their lives. Still, Moore's points about the necessity of a film studio checking its facts in this sort of film, together with the referenced articles and transcripts from Moore's site, go much further than the unsubstantiated claims that I've seen against Moore's film.
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