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DVD Outfoxed - Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism
Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism uses the inflammatory tactics of the Fox News Channel to demonstrate the conservative bias that's handed down by Fox's owner, media mogul Rupert Murdoch. The documentary gathers interviews from media watchdogs and former Fox employees (including a former anchor, Jon Du Pre, who describes his flailing efforts to create a celebration for Reagan's birthday when the one he was sent to cover never materialized), but their overwhelming condemnation of Fox's skewed news practices isn't half as effective as footage taken directly from Fox itself--an appalling montage of pundit Bill O'Reilly telling guests to shut up; repeated efforts to paint Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry as weak and waffling, while President Bush is captured in respectful, reverent images; and management memos dictating language, subject matter, and point of view. Outfoxed is unlikely to persuade Fox News fans to change their views, but it may spur outraged liberals to take action. --Bret Fetzer
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I give 3 stars for the material & footage that this documentary brings to the attention of people that may or may not have been exposed to it before. The bias of the makers of this documentary is obvious & about as strong as garlic the next day following an Italian dinner coming out of your pores.
So, the question should be, regardless of bias, is what this documentary true or false? The ridiculous nature in which FOX presents news, and the bias they ooze through the screen is disgusting and in need of exposure...and to that end this documentary is successful. Is it great?..probably not. Is it informative?..yes, depending on how much you already monitor FOX's slant.
Bottomline: if you're extemely familiar with the ineptitude of the media & FOX's sick game they play with the whole "Fair & Balanced" thing...then don't bother buying this DVD...if you think FOX isn't that bad...please view this DVD at any cost.
The FOX Will Guard The Henhouse
We have something in this great country of ours called the Media. It acts as something of a Fourth Estate, after the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches of our government. But in recent years, the integrity of that Fourth Estate has been undercut by the agenda of a man named Rupert Murdoch, and a media outlet called the Fox News Channel. And this is at the heart of Robert Greenwald's documentary OUTFOXED, which takes a look at the warping of our media by the first-ever cable news channel to clearly propagate a one-world viewpoint, one slanted very far to the right.
Utilizing interviews with various former employees of the Fox News Channel, which, when it started in 1996, resembled in many ways Ted Turner's CNN at its 1980 start, OUTFOXED shows how Murdoch, who isn't even an American to begin with but was shown to be a fervent admirer of Ronald Reagan, began slowly but surely to undercut the media's ability to report on news stories accurately and with clear thinking in mind. Bit by bit, it grew into a mega-media outlet with the power to influence people big time. In every way possible, it became a television mouthpiece for the far right in America--a perfect example of 24-hour corporate cable fascism, where dissent was tantamount to treason, particularly after 9/11 and when it came to George W. Bush.
Clip after clip after clip, we see the Fox News Channel's all-star lineup of blatant right-wing nutjobs--Bill O'Reilly; Brit Hume; Sean Hannity; Neil Cavuto--scathingly rip apart guests who disagree to any significant extent with them apart, while at the same time promoting their slogans of "Fair And Balanced" and "We Report, You Decide"--slogans which over time have clearly been shown, to say the least, blatantly untruthful. And what is made dreadfully clear, especially in the clips of the FNC's "reporting" during the 2004 presidential election is of their certainity that Bush/Cheney were going to win, complete with the cheerleading.
But apart from all this, OUTFOXED also says that the real sad thing is how other cable outlets have had to somehow use other TV personalities with right-wing proclivities to somehow "outfox" Fox, which is for all intents and purposes impossible. This is a film as every bit as infuriating as FAHRENHEIT 9/11 was, if at a more sober key, and a very tragic commentary on how our system of government has allowed a Fox named Rupert Murdoch, and his cast of right-wingers, to run the henhouse that is the United States of America.
But OUTFOXED also suggests that public outrage can bring about the change needed to stop other Rupert Murdoch types from hijacking America. And that change seems to be slowly but surely taking place even today, making OUTFOXED a chilling and infuriating must-see film.
Not as good as I had hoped
I guess my main complaint about this movie is the whole "oh wow I can't believe Fox does that!" Reaction they're trying to get out of the viewer. Just present the information, no need for ridiculous dramatization of it.
I did give it 2 stars though because there's a few clips I haven't seen before like the apology. It was also interesting to hear from Jeremy Glick too.
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