Peter Barry Chowka:

As of July 10th, there were 5,726 news articles in response to the keyword "sicko" linked from Google News. Many if not most of the articles were unique, not carbon copies, with datelines all over the country. One analysis of a major sample of the reviews found that 91% of them were positive. Typically, mild criticisms of some aspect of Moore's film making or his credibility are overshadowed by praise and agreement with his prescription for America (single payer government-run health care).

Still, after ten days in wide national distribution, Sicko was performing below expectations.

That's a rather remarkable disconnect. If true, 91% of mainstream media reviewers were absolutely enthralled by something that the common man likes, apparently, even less than Fahrenheit 911.

This doesn't point to any conscious effort to mislead, but rather, to a community which is deeply out of touch with mainstream American tastes and outlook.