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Documentary Film Shows Effect of Outscoring, Layoffs on Average Workers.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, June, 2004
By Shirleen Holt, The Seattle Times Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jun. 11--It's tempting to compare filmmaker Greg Spotts with Michael Moore. Like that pugnacious documentarian, Spotts aims to champion the little guy -- in this case, Americans losing their jobs to foreign competition.
But while Moore tempers his savage criticism of The Man (usually a corporate profiteer) with humor, Spotts can't bring himself to give this subject a light-hearted touch.
"I'm not sure it's appropriate to find too much humor," he says from his home in Santa Monica, Calif., where he's editing his self-financed documentary, "American Jobs," set to be released on DVD on Labor Day.
It could be the first feature-length documentary to chronicle...
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