Film Review: "Awake: A Dream From Standing Rock," is Full Scaremongering Claims and No Evidence

townhall.com ^ | 4/24/2017 | Phelim McAleer

[rktman]

AWAKE, a Dream from Standing Rock is a new documentary from controversial filmmaker Josh Fox.

And I'm using the “truthful” definition of “controversial filmmaker”—which apparently means that the ends justify the means and lies and omissions are acceptable as long as it helps promote the cause.

I first came across Josh Fox's “controversial” (read: unethical) style of filmmaking in Gasland, the film that started the international anti-fracking movement. In Gasland, Fox claimed fracking led to people being able to light their water on fire. He promoted the shocking scene of a flaming household faucet and frightened millions in the process. Eventually, I managed to get him to answer questions and admit that fracking had nothing to do with flaming faucets. (It's a natural occurrence at hundreds of locations across the US.) But instead of living up to his “error,” Fox chose to push the lie and claimed the information and context that proved him to be an unethical journalist was simply "not relevant."

But the flaming faucet was just one of his distortions. He featured “water contamination research” from an expert who lied about her qualifications, ignored EPA findings that water was not contaminated, and, in an appallingly cruel piece of activism, told women that fracking caused a spike in breast cancer in Texas. Every cancer expert in Texas said the claim was false, but Fox never withdrew the claim or apologized for frightening women and their families.

[rktman]

Wonder if they reference all the tons of trash the eco warriors left in their wake. Or the 12+ abandoned dogs or the corpse they left in the river. I guess if it furthers their desire for more cash, it must be okee dokee.

[South Dakota]

Micheal moore 2.0
The people who still believe standing rock was about water and burial sites will ignore the other side of the coin.
I mean, truth is lost when hysteria comes calling

[rktman]

“...other side of the coin.” Should “coin” be plural? That’s most likely what it was about in the deepest darkest region of the “hole” affair. No doubt there were “true believers” there but in the end, it’s all about the benjamins. Or shortage of them.

[South Dakota]

Shortage of Benjamin’s.
I lost my job over it. Hauling material to the pipeline