Editing Michael Moore (section)

====''Roger and Me''====
The 1989 film ''[[Roger & Me]]'' was Moore's first documentary about what happened to [[Flint, Michigan]], after [[General Motors]] closed its factories and opened new ones in Mexico where the workers were paid lower wages than their American counterparts. The "Roger" referred to in the title is [[Roger B. Smith]], then CEO and President of General Motors.

[[Harlan Jacobson]], editor of ''[[Film Comment]]'' magazine, said that Moore muddled the chronology in ''Roger & Me'' to make it seem that events that took place before G.M.'s layoffs were a consequence of them.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Williams |first1=Linda |editor1-last=Grant |editor1-first=Barry Keith |editor2-last=Sloniowski |editor2-first=Jeannette |title=Documenting the documentary: close readings of documentary film and video |publisher=[[Wayne State University Press]] |date=c. 1998 |chapter=Chapter 24: Mirrors without Memories: Truth, History, and ''The Thin Blue Line'' |pages=388–389 |url=http://artsites.ucsc.edu/faculty/gustafson/FILM%20161.F06/readings/williamsthin.pdf#page=6 |access-date=March 27, 2021 |archive-date=March 8, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220308182424/http://artsites.ucsc.edu/faculty/gustafson/FILM%20161.F06/readings/williamsthin.pdf#page=6 |url-status=live }}</ref> Critic [[Roger Ebert]] defended Moore's handling of the timeline as an artistic and stylistic choice that had less to do with his credibility as a filmmaker and more to do with the flexibility of film as a medium to express a satiric viewpoint.<ref>{{cite news |title=Attacks on 'Roger & Me' completely miss the point of the film |first1=Roger |last1=Ebert  |author1-link=Roger Ebert |date=February 11, 1990 |work=[[Chicago Sun-Times]] |url=http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19900211/COMMENTARY/22010306 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120722130723/http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19900211/COMMENTARY/22010306 |archive-date=July 22, 2012 |access-date=March 27, 2021}}{{cbignore}}<!-- also at https://www.rogerebert.com/roger-ebert/attacks-on-roger-and-me-completely-miss-point-of-film --></ref>