Jun 28 2007New York Stock Exchange Bars Michael Moore
Michael Moore was scheduled to do a press conference today from the New York Stock Exchange in which he was to call for Wall Street investors and Main Street consumers to divest themselves of HMO, health insurance, and drug company stocks, but he was barred from it, presumably by NYSE officials.
I asked a few gentlemen who work on the floor for comment on the incident, but all they would do was make a series of esoteric hand gestures and shout unintelligibly.
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1. Stern - June 30, 2007 8:07 AM
Moore wasn't scheduled to do an interview from the floor of the NYSE. Watch the YouTube video.
Neither CNBC nor Moore had applied for a guest pass, says the reporter. CNBC was led to believe Moore was handling that. Moore's side didn't. Then Moore implies that he in particular was banned, but does so in a rhetorical question fashion, not responding to the reporter's statement that Moore had neglected to apply for permission to enter.
Of course it might be true that the NYSE would have not approved Moore, although his outrage would have been more effective if he had actually applied for permission. The NYSE is a private membership corporation, not a public facility. It's not the Treasury Department, for instance. In general, private organizations won't let critics on their premises. I'm sure critics of Moore are not allowed to film in his offices.