Post by Anodyne on Feb 3, 2007 20:09:37 GMT -5
Following the lead of environmentalists, corporations are making documentaries to get their points across.
Feb. 2, 2007 - It sounds like something out of the next “Borat” movie: a Romanian miner and an Irish filmmaker hop a plane to Madagascar, and then to Chile, to make the case that racist and arrogant environmentalists are keeping poor people down. But despite the implausible story line, this isn’t a scene out of a slapdash comedy. It’s from a new documentary being hailed in some quarters, and scorned in others, as big business’s answer to Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth.” Financed by a Canadian mining company, written and narrated by a former correspondent for the Financial Times, the film, “Mine Your Own Business,” has become the target of a campaign by Greenpeace and other environmental groups charging that it’s nothing more than dangerous propaganda.
More, or course: www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16948523/site/newsweek/
Feb. 2, 2007 - It sounds like something out of the next “Borat” movie: a Romanian miner and an Irish filmmaker hop a plane to Madagascar, and then to Chile, to make the case that racist and arrogant environmentalists are keeping poor people down. But despite the implausible story line, this isn’t a scene out of a slapdash comedy. It’s from a new documentary being hailed in some quarters, and scorned in others, as big business’s answer to Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth.” Financed by a Canadian mining company, written and narrated by a former correspondent for the Financial Times, the film, “Mine Your Own Business,” has become the target of a campaign by Greenpeace and other environmental groups charging that it’s nothing more than dangerous propaganda.
More, or course: www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16948523/site/newsweek/