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Moore’s ‘TV Nation’ bows with bite and wit
by JOHN CROOK
Here’s some important advice for anyone dealing with mischievous Michael Moore: Be careful what kind of message you leave on his answering machine.
“TV Nation," a new summer series from the sly creator of 1989’s acclaimed documentary “Roger & Me,” premieres on NBC Tuesday, July 19.
Moore’s tongue-in-cheek, smile-and-slice technique is evident in every segment of this brisk and occasionally demented hour.
“Each week I’m gonna bring you stories about the other side of America,” he says in his introduction. “Some of them will be funny. Some of them will be sad. But all of them will be true.”
About the answering machine, though: It turns up in the very first segment, in which Moore travels to Mexico to visit American companies that have relocated plants - and jobs - to that country.
A spokesman for one major American sporting goods firm leaves a message declining Moore’s request for a visit, saying that the company does not want to publicize its presence in Mexico. Big mistake.
Without additional comment, Moore simply includes footage showing the company’s Mexico plant, while replaying the message.
Among other highlights: acclaimed black actor Yaphet Kotto and a convicted white felon participate in an experiment to see whether New York cab drivers discriminate among passengers; correspondent Merrill Markoe visits a high-tech prison that has	Michael Moore (“Roger & Me”) is the mastermind
everything except inmates; and Moore travels to Russia to dis-	behind “TV Nation,” a weekly series of “stories
arm the missile he “knows” is still aimed at his hometown of	about the other side of America,” premiering
Flint, Mich.	Tuesday	on	NBC.
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