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.
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Great documentary. People need to watch this and look into the subject further. Media has an enormous amount of influence on our opinions, which we seem to accept instead of investigating for ourselves.
Interesting documentary. I would like to see a documentary that shows how the main stream media, other than FOX, ie. MSNBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, ad PBS do exactly the opposite. They bury any Conservative stories and slant absolutely everything to the Liberal side. If FOX was not available, we would have zero opposing viewpoints. I guess that is why FOX is the #1 rated station…if you turn on any other news station it is inck-step with the Liberal agenda. Same with most newspapers and magazines.
The citizen is fast becoming an endangered species…
@FLGuy
Have you ever stopped to think you might be confusing liberal media (as in media that is free to report facts) with the Liberal or Democratic political parties? Just because the two share a common word doesn’t mean they are related. Although there are no doubt a few outlets with political connections to liberal parties, the main reason most mainstream news services seem to be on one side and Fox News on the other is that they rely on journalism and acknowledged facts, while Fox relies on sensationalism and political spin. The dividing line doesn’t have anywhere as much to do with politics as it does with truth and integrity. The idea of a Liberal (capitalized) media is an invention of American Republican pundits and politicians, serving only as an imaginary enemy and rallying point for ignorant viewers.
@FLGuy, if that were true, then why were ALL media networks virtually silent on the build-up to the Iraq War? Why did none of them properly question or investigate the claims of WMDs in Iraq? Why did they do no investigation or raise any issue to the Constitutional rights overrided by the PATRIOT Act? Why did no one report on the lucrative no-bid contracts awarded to Halliburton and its subsidiary KBR, which was connected very heavily with high levels of the Bush administration (Cheney was the former CEO of Halliburton and still received a stipend)? Why was more media attention given to the Clinton impeachment fiasco than to allegations of torture and war crimes leading to the highest levels of the Bush administration?
The myth of the liberal media is one that was spread by Rupert Murdoch and the right-wing noise machine.
Yes! I try to watch a little of all news shows, CNN mostly, MSNBC, Fox, and PBS. Next, I read books, watch documentaries and ask people questions; all people, not just people who I agree with. I don’t think we can trust any news to report accurately (case and point: no reporting on Halliburton–and I’m still trying to figure out how Maxine Waters is such a big story even though Halliburton never was). We have to take the info we get, synethsize it with other info, and come to or own conclusions about what’s really going on. Yes, this means we have to think for ourselves and not just take what these people say at face value!