A Curate's Egg
Saturday, October 13th, 2007 09:56 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
caddymanPlease to explain how Al Gore has managed to wangle a Nobel Peace Prize (and indeed, an Oscar)?
I suppose it is because there would be too much opposition to awarding him one of the Nobel science prizes on account of his well-meaning but inaccurate movie, An Inconvenient Truth.
The problem, to my mind, is that this is the sort of thing: major inaccuracies in a film that should spark debate on an important subject is actually counter productive. We have, by US standards, a left wing politician with possible ambitions on the White House, pedalling a worthy, if "right-on" message that big business would probably like to ignore. He has ham-fistedly taken a global issue and placed it in the centre of US party politics, when it could have been placed above sectarian posturing. He has riddled his own propaganda with scientific sensationalism and inconsistencies and given the very people it is aimed at the space to dismiss the problem and avoid working to a solution.
Would Jed Bartlett have made such a mistake? He had better scriptwriters, methinks.
I suppose it is because there would be too much opposition to awarding him one of the Nobel science prizes on account of his well-meaning but inaccurate movie, An Inconvenient Truth.
The problem, to my mind, is that this is the sort of thing: major inaccuracies in a film that should spark debate on an important subject is actually counter productive. We have, by US standards, a left wing politician with possible ambitions on the White House, pedalling a worthy, if "right-on" message that big business would probably like to ignore. He has ham-fistedly taken a global issue and placed it in the centre of US party politics, when it could have been placed above sectarian posturing. He has riddled his own propaganda with scientific sensationalism and inconsistencies and given the very people it is aimed at the space to dismiss the problem and avoid working to a solution.
Would Jed Bartlett have made such a mistake? He had better scriptwriters, methinks.