(Vanity question) Do Soros and or Michael Moore have financial dealing with Sony, Inc?

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[Mamzelle]

I've been doing some personal research as to the financial/corporate ties that Sony might have to prominent 527 types like Michael Moore and George Soros...I'm afraid I've gotten bogged down and confused. Was hoping a FReeper could help me straighten it out.

[Grampa Dave]

I don't think that Sony and Michael Moore get along very well:


Sony Rigs Oscars Says Michael Moore
March 24, 2003

Michael Moore's Oscars Speech. Twice uses fictitious word - "Fictition"

Michael Moore GOES GUNNING For SONY.

Anti-gun "Bowling for Coumbine" will be passed up for an Oscar, says Moore, because Sony has rigged the voting.

According to this article (http://www.pagesix.com/seven/03182003/pagesix/pagesix.htm), Sony has actually prevented the Oscar voters from viewing its own film. But Why?

The theory goes: Because only those who have seen all the documentaries nominated can vote. And so Sony only shows its own documentary to those voters it knows will vote for it.

Pretty clever. Sounds an awful lot like another trick in the music business: not making all of your own artists available for distribution, because you only want the audience to hear certain of your artists, so you can control the market.

A pattern of anti-trust behavior.

- by Aimee Deep at 08:11 AM with 57 comments

[bayourod]

I heard that Soros owns a Sony TV.