http://southoftheborderdoc.com/oliver-stone-responds-to-attack-from-the-new-york-times-larry-rohter/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=oliver-stone-responds-to-attack-from-the-new-york-times-larry-rohter a film by Oliver Stone Thu, 28 Oct 2010 21:53:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://southoftheborderdoc.com/oliver-stone-responds-to-attack-from-the-new-york-times-larry-rohter/comment-page-1/#comment-95 Movies | Reviews | Movie Times | Hollywood News | | Movie Reviews | New Film Reviews Thu, 07 Oct 2010 17:12:10 +0000 http://southoftheborderdoc.com/?p=477#comment-95 [...] Larry Rohter’s frontal assault on the film took up most of the front page of the New York Times‘s Arts section, stating that the film is “plagued by … issues of accuracy”. However, he failed to find any factual errors in the film – despite some rather desperate attempts. In one such foray he used data on oil imports from 2004-2010 to try to refute an oil industry analyst who appears in a TV clip in the film, in April 2002. The whole five-second soundbite had no relevance to the film in any case, but Rohter still got it wrong. [...] [...] Larry Rohter’s frontal assault on the film took up most of the front page of the New York Times‘s Arts section, stating that the film is “plagued by … issues of accuracy”. However, he failed to find any factual errors in the film – despite some rather desperate attempts. In one such foray he used data on oil imports from 2004-2010 to try to refute an oil industry analyst who appears in a TV clip in the film, in April 2002. The whole five-second soundbite had no relevance to the film in any case, but Rohter still got it wrong. [...]

]]> http://southoftheborderdoc.com/oliver-stone-responds-to-attack-from-the-new-york-times-larry-rohter/comment-page-1/#comment-93 South of the Border: reviewing the reviewers | Mark Weisbrot | Worldwide News Fri, 01 Oct 2010 12:51:10 +0000 http://southoftheborderdoc.com/?p=477#comment-93 [...] Larry Rohter’s frontal assault on the film took up most of the front page of the New York Times‘s Arts section, stating that the film is “plagued by … issues of accuracy”. However, he failed to find any factual errors in the film – despite some rather desperate attempts. In one such foray he used data on oil imports from 2004-2010 to try to refute an oil industry analyst who appears in a TV clip in the film, in April 2002. The whole five-second soundbite had no relevance to the film in any case, but Rohter still got it wrong. [...] [...] Larry Rohter’s frontal assault on the film took up most of the front page of the New York Times‘s Arts section, stating that the film is “plagued by … issues of accuracy”. However, he failed to find any factual errors in the film – despite some rather desperate attempts. In one such foray he used data on oil imports from 2004-2010 to try to refute an oil industry analyst who appears in a TV clip in the film, in April 2002. The whole five-second soundbite had no relevance to the film in any case, but Rohter still got it wrong. [...]

]]> http://southoftheborderdoc.com/oliver-stone-responds-to-attack-from-the-new-york-times-larry-rohter/comment-page-1/#comment-31 FAIR Blog » Blog Archive » Larry Rohter Responds on South of the Border Tue, 29 Jun 2010 20:39:26 +0000 http://southoftheborderdoc.com/?p=477#comment-31 [...] new film South of the Border. So Stone and the film's co-writers Mark Weisbrot and Tariq Ali wrote a devastating rebuttal. A reader passed along a link to that piece to Rohter, suggesting that he "should be embarrassed" [...] [...] new film South of the Border. So Stone and the film's co-writers Mark Weisbrot and Tariq Ali wrote a devastating rebuttal. A reader passed along a link to that piece to Rohter, suggesting that he "should be embarrassed" [...]

]]> http://southoftheborderdoc.com/oliver-stone-responds-to-attack-from-the-new-york-times-larry-rohter/comment-page-1/#comment-25 FAIR Blog » Blog Archive » NYT Reporter, Playing Film Critic, Pans Film About Himself Mon, 28 Jun 2010 19:39:56 +0000 http://southoftheborderdoc.com/?p=477#comment-25 [...] Weisbrot and Ali have written a letter to the Times responding to the review. They point out that even some of the more mundane criticisms of the film [...] [...] Weisbrot and Ali have written a letter to the Times responding to the review. They point out that even some of the more mundane criticisms of the film [...]

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