Editing Michael Moore (section)

===Journalism===
At age 22, Moore founded<ref name="cnn/2004/07/05/fahrenheit">{{cite news |last1=Corliss |first1=Richard |title=The world according to Michael |url=https://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/07/05/fahrenheit.tm/ |access-date=July 3, 2023 |work=ALLPOLITICS |publisher=CNN |date=July 5, 2004 |archive-date=July 3, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230703102855/https://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/07/05/fahrenheit.tm/ |url-status=live }}</ref> the alternative newspaper ''Free to Be...'',<ref name="isbn=978-1-61423-646-7">{{cite book |last1=Flinn |first1=Gary |title=Remembering Flint, Michigan: Stories from the Vehicle City |date=October 4, 2010 |publisher=Arcadia Publishing |isbn=978-1-61423-646-7 |page=95 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sj9_CQAAQBAJ&pg=PT95 |access-date=July 3, 2023 |language=en |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230703101831/https://books.google.com/books?id=sj9_CQAAQBAJ&pg=PT95&lpg=PT95#v=onepage&q&f=false |archive-date=July 3, 2023}}</ref> later renamed ''The Flint Voice'' ([[Burton, Michigan]] 1977–1982<ref name="loc.gov/sn93023624">*{{cite web |title=The Flint Voice (Burton, MI) 1977–1982 |url=https://www.loc.gov/item/sn93023624/ |website=Library of Congress |access-date=July 3, 2023 |archive-date=July 3, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230703025114/https://www.loc.gov/item/sn93023624/}}
* {{cite web |author1=National Endowment for the Humanities |title=About The Flint voice. [volume] (Burton, MI) 1977–1982 |url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn93023624/ |website=Chronicling America |publisher=Library of Congress |access-date=July 3, 2023 |archive-date=July 3, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230703025114/https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn93023624/ |url-status=live }}
* {{cite web |author1=National Endowment for the Humanities |title=Libraries that Have It: The Flint voice. [volume] (Burton, MI) 1977–1982 |url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn93023624/holdings/ |website=chronicling america |publisher=loc.gov |access-date=July 3, 2023 |archive-date=July 3, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230703102855/https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn93023624/holdings/ |url-status=live }}</ref>), later renamed to ''The Michigan Voice'' (Burton, Michigan 1983–1986<ref name="loc.gov/sn93023625">*{{cite web |title=Michigan Voice (Burton, Mich.) 1983–1986 |url=https://www.loc.gov/item/sn93023625 |website=Library of Congress |access-date=July 3, 2023 |archive-date=July 3, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230703025113/https://www.loc.gov/item/sn93023625 |url-status=live }}
* {{cite web |author1=National Endowment for the Humanities |title=About Michigan voice. [volume] (Burton, Mich.) 1983–1986 |url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn93023625/ |access-date=July 3, 2023 |archive-date=July 3, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230703025113/https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn93023625/ |url-status=live }}</ref>) as it expanded to cover the entire state.<ref name="mlive/history-roger-me">{{cite news |last1=Thorne |first1=Blake |title=Michael Moore and Flint: An oral history of 'Roger & Me' after 25 years |url=https://www.mlive.com/news/flint/2014/12/an_oral_history_of_roger_and_m.html |access-date=July 3, 2023 |work=[[The Flint Journal]] |date=December 3, 2014 |language=en |archive-date=July 3, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230703025113/https://www.mlive.com/news/flint/2014/12/an_oral_history_of_roger_and_m.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="britannica/Michael-Moore">{{cite web |title=Michael Moore |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Michael-Moore |website=Encyclopædia Britannica |access-date=July 3, 2023 |language=en |date=May 23, 2023 |archive-date=July 18, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230718181032/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Michael-Moore |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="eastvillagemagazine./ben-hamper-rivethead">{{cite news |title=Profile: 30 years later, Ben Hamper remembers Rivethead, his legacy of "that one story, that one guy" |url=https://www.eastvillagemagazine.org/2021/06/12/profile-30-years-later-ben-hamper-remembers-the-rivethead-his-legacy-of-that-one-story-that-one-guy/ |access-date=July 3, 2023 |work=East Village Magazine |date=June 13, 2021 |archive-date=July 3, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230703025116/https://www.eastvillagemagazine.org/2021/06/12/profile-30-years-later-ben-hamper-remembers-the-rivethead-his-legacy-of-that-one-story-that-one-guy/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="encyclopedia.com/michael-moore">{{cite web |title=Michael Moore |url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/literature-and-arts/film-and-television-biographies/michael-moore |website=Encyclopedia.com |access-date=July 3, 2023 |archive-date=July 3, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230703025113/https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/literature-and-arts/film-and-television-biographies/michael-moore |url-status=live }}</ref>

Singer-songwriter [[Harry Chapin]] is credited with being the primary benefactor in bringing about the bi-weekly newspaper's launch, by performing benefit concerts and donating the money to Moore. Moore crept backstage after a concert to Chapin's dressing room and convinced him to do a benefit concert. Chapin subsequently did a concert in Flint every year.<ref>Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/icVAfCMpets Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20130507230413/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icVAfCMpets&gl=US&hl=en Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{Cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icVAfCMpets |title=Michael Moore on how Harry Chapin helped found the magazine|via=YouTube|date=October 22, 2011 }}{{cbignore}}</ref>

In April 1986, ''The Michigan Voice'' published its final issue as Moore moved to San Francisco.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://thecountypress.mihomepaper.com/articles/a-look-back-at-michael-moore/ | title=A look back at Michael Moore - the County Press | date=November 6, 2019 | access-date=July 3, 2023 | archive-date=July 3, 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230703102855/https://thecountypress.mihomepaper.com/articles/a-look-back-at-michael-moore/ | url-status=live }}</ref>
[[File:Michael Moore 66ème Festival de Venise (Mostra) color.jpg|thumb|Moore at the [[66th Venice International Film Festival]] in September 2009]]
After four months at ''[[Mother Jones (magazine)|Mother Jones]]'' in 1986, Moore was fired in early September. [[Matt Labash]] of ''[[The Weekly Standard]]'' reported this was for refusing to print an article by [[Paul Berman]] that was critical of the [[Sandinista]] human rights record in [[Nicaragua]].<ref name="Schultz">{{cite book |last=Schultz |first=Emily |title=Michael Moore: a biography |year=2005 |publisher=ECW Press |pages=47–54 |isbn=1-55022-699-1 |url=https://archive.org/details/michaelmoore00emil}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite news |date=September 27, 1986 |title=RADICAL MAGAZINE REMOVES EDITOR, SETTING OFF A WIDENING POLITICAL DEBATE (Published 1986) |work=The New York Times |language=en |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/09/27/us/radical-magazine-removes-editor-setting-off-a-widening-political-debate.html |access-date=August 9, 2023 |archive-date=May 2, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230502220944/https://www.nytimes.com/1986/09/27/us/radical-magazine-removes-editor-setting-off-a-widening-political-debate.html |url-status=live |last1=Jones |first1=Alex S. }}</ref> Moore refused to run the article because he believed it was inaccurate
and would be used by the Reagan Administration against the Sandinistas.<ref name=":0" /> Speaking on the matter, Moore stated, "The article was flatly wrong and the worst kind of patronizing bullshit. You would scarcely know from it that the United States had been at war with Nicaragua for the last five years."<ref>Cockburn, Alexander. "Beat The Devil: Michael meets Mr. Jones", ''[[The Nation]]'', September 13, 1986.</ref> Chairman of the Foundation for National Progress (which owns ''Mother Jones'') Adam Hochschild said that Moore was fired due to performing poorly at his job.<ref name=":0" /> According to ''[[The New York Times]]'', senior staff members felt that Moore was "rigidly ideological".<ref name=":0" />

Moore has contended that ''Mother Jones'' fired him because of the publisher's refusal to allow him to cover a story on the GM plant closings in his hometown of [[Flint, Michigan]]. Moore responded by putting laid-off GM worker [[Ben Hamper]], who also wrote for the same magazine at the time, on the magazine's cover. This act led to his termination. Moore sued for wrongful dismissal, and settled out of court for $58,000, providing him with some of the seed money,<ref name="afi/Catalog/58258">{{cite web |title=Roger & Me |url=https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/MovieDetails/58258 |website=Catalog |publisher=AFI |access-date=July 3, 2023 |archive-date=July 3, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230703025113/https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/MovieDetails/58258 |url-status=live }}</ref> with other fund raising efforts, including bingo games,<ref name="encyclopedia/moore-michael-1954">{{cite web |title=Moore, Michael (1954—) |url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/media/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/moore-michael-1954 |website=Encyclopedia.com |access-date=July 3, 2023 |archive-date=July 3, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230703102855/https://www.encyclopedia.com/media/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/moore-michael-1954 |url-status=live }}</ref> for his first film, ''[[Roger & Me]]''.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Labash |first1=Matt |title=Michael Moore, One-Trick Phony |url=http://www.weeklystandard.com/michael-moore-one-trick-phony/article/5507 |website=The Weekly Standard |access-date=October 7, 2018 |date=June 8, 1998 |archive-date=April 1, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180401024035/http://www.weeklystandard.com/michael-moore-one-trick-phony/article/5507 }}</ref> Moore worked for [[Ralph Nader]] as the editor of a newsletter after being fired by ''Mother Jones'', which provided further financial support during this period.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Rapoport |first=Roger |title=Citizen Moore: The Life and Times of an American Iconoclast |publisher=RDR Books |year=2007 |page=94}}</ref>