Craig: Movie Pundit

Michael Moore's 9/11 is going to break huge tomorrow. I think it has a real chance to be the #1 movie in box office sales this weekend. The amount of publicity that the movie has received is massive and the movie is not going have much compitition. I checked the other movies coming out and I don't think White Chicks is going to be a real money-maker. I think that we could safely say that a movie deticaded completely to the attacking of George W Bush being the #1 movie in America will be taken by the conventional wisdom as a bad sign for Bush. CW is more important than people think, especially for the way reporters cover the campaigns. If polls and other indicators show a guy is up in a race, look for stories about big crowds, exciting speeches and so on. If CW says that a guys is losing, look for stories on "campaign in chaos" or "struggling to find a message." If reporters think that Kerry is doing well and Bush is in trouble, then the reporting will reflect that.