One wouldn't expect the commencement speaker for the Annenberg School of Communication to devote his speech to everything wrong with today's media.
But, to the tune of the audience's laughter, documentarian Michael Moore did exactly that at Monday's ceremony for the students graduating from the Annenberg School of Communication.
"The media we have doesn't do its job," he explained to the the several hundred faculty members, guests and graduates assembled for the ceremony.
Moore -- who produced Roger and Me, the highest-ever grossing documentary in America -- urged the graduates to tell "the story that's not being told."
The documentarian claimed that the media is driven by the "three 'C's: consistency, complacency and conformity."
"The fourth 'C' that generates is cynicism," Moore said.
Moore -- who currently produces a television show called The Awful Truth -- said he thought neither the media or politicians are listening to the stories of the everyday American.
"I hope you go out there and do everything you can do to turn this thing around," he charged yesterday's graduates.
Three dozen students received their master's degrees from Annenberg on Monday, with doctoral diplomas given to ten students.
Annenberg School for Communication Dean Kathleen Hall Jamieson also spoke at the ceremony in the Annenberg building.
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