Michael Moore created the documentary Fahrenheit 911 to try and persuade viewers into believing the conspiracy theory that President George W. Bush had something to do with the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre on September 11th, 2001. Debbie Melnyle and Rick Caine created Manufacturing Dissent to expose the ways in which Michael Moore is trying to convince viewers of what he believes. The two documentaries are different when it comes to content, tone and style. They both have their own way of going about persuading their viewers into believing their opinion.
In Fahrenheit 911, Moore uses a persuasion to convince viewers that President Bush cheated in the election of 2000 by having votes knocked off, votes not being counted and inflating the counting polls. According to Moore, Al Gore should have won the election of 2000 instead of Bush. Moore states that after hearing about the first plane hitting the tower, he continued with the photo opportunity that he had at an elementary school in Florida. Bush even continued after his chief of staff had told him that the nation was under
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He uses closeups of the damages and interviews of the victims to further persuade viewers that Bush may have has something to do with 911. Melnyle and Caine use more neutral camera work, they do not include closeups and used entire clips to promote the truth. They did not use an over inflammatory style to prove their point, which is something that Moore did do. When Moore, used closeups of the plane crashes, he was trying to cause the viewers to feel pain and grief for the victims and push his opinion onto them because they are feeling emotional about what happened. Melnyle and Caine use a general approach to try and get viewers to think critically about what Moore is telling