American newsmedia and American politics in Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11

It is necessary to admit that media helps manufacturing and shaping public opinion, even public perception. Every new media enlightens and redefines our view of time and space. The information revolution that we are going through at the moment has many direct or indirect effects on our thinking and daily lives.Noam Chomsky carried those ideas into the field of politics. According to Chomsky, the role of the media in contemporary politics makes us question our sense of a democratic society. When democracy exists in a society, that society has the means to take part in the decision-making process of their own matters. But now in Iraq, the public is barred from managing of their own affairs. This again is called democracy thanks to the media. Through disinformation and misinformation the media has determined the general sense of democracy and many other things.Fahrenheit 9/11 is a documentary film from director Michael Moore. Moore radically criticizes the American political-economic system and advances that critique into the mainstream media. The film elaborates on the political condition in the United States. It mainly targets to criticize the direction of the news media and the impact of the attacks of September 11, 2001 on the strengthening of instruments of social repression and control. Fahrenheit 9/11 is another awful truth about how much can be sacrificed for financial gains, how far a bunch of people that leads the super power USA can go to alter the maps and to change the lives of millions of people.The film opens with recalling the horrors of 9/11 in a unique way: showing us a black screen while the sounds of the planes crashing into the buildings are heard on the soundtrack. While the memories of that horror are still fresh in our heads, Moore then proceeds to expose the Bush family's long-standing connections with the Saudi royal family, a fact that few people seemed aware of before this film was released. Moore then goes on to criticize the way in which the Bush administration has exploited the ?War on Terror? for maximum political effectiveness. The peak of this exploitation is the Patriot Act which brought the removal of certain civil rights of ordinary American citizens.The film?s final summarizes its main perspective: ?The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects and its object is not the victory over either Eurasia or East Asia, but to keep the very structure of society intact.? That is to say that the threat against the American people is the American political and economic system.