Could it be that the New York Times (and me, by extension) fell for a publicity stunt? It’s not too far-fetched. I’ve been a PR hack, and it happens more than newspaper people want to admit.

Michael Moore has said on CNN, as the Beeb reports, that he knew in Spring of 2003 that Disney would not allow Miramax to distribute Fahrenheit 911, which, as Moore’s track record shows, will prove uber-critical of the powers that be.

That means, as I pointed out in the previous post, that we were duped. But, so was the slew of 24/7 news channels that went with the story, splashing around file footage of the scraggy-faced Moore.

Ah, nuts.

Props to BuzzMachine for pointing the way.