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Documentary on reported Conservative bias of the Rupert Murdoch-owned Fox News Channel (FNC), which promotes itself as "Fair and Balanced". Material includes interviews with former FNC employees and the inter-office memos they provided. | add synopsis
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Documentary Maker Greenwald Takes New Jab at FNC
(From Studio Briefing - Film News. 23 February 2007)
'Outfoxed' Director May Take on Sinclair Broadcasting
(From Studio Briefing - Film News. 15 December 2004)
(From Studio Briefing - Film News. 23 February 2007)
'Outfoxed' Director May Take on Sinclair Broadcasting
(From Studio Briefing - Film News. 15 December 2004)
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May be too esoteric for partisan viewers
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Cast
(Credited cast) | Roger Ailes | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
| Eric Alterman | ... | Interviewee |
| Christiane Amanpour | ... | Herself (archive footage) |
 | Harry Belafonte | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
| David Brock | ... | Interviewee |
| Tom Brokaw | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
 | George W. Bush | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
| Carl Cameron | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
 | George Carlin | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
| Neil Cavuto | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
| Douglas Cheek | ... | Narrator |
| Dick Cheney | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
| Richard Clarke | ... | Himself |
| Jeff Cohen | ... | Interviewee |
| Alan Colmes | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
 | Walter Cronkite | ... | Himself |
| Laurie Dhue | ... | Herself (archive footage) |
| Steve Doocy | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
| Susan Estrich | ... | Herself (archive footage) |
 | Al Franken | ... | Himself (also archive footage) |
| Newt Gingrich | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
| Jeremy Glick | ... | Himself (also archive footage) |
| Sean Hannity | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
| Brit Hume | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
| Molly Ivins | ... | Herself (archive footage) |
 | Peter Jennings | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
| Ted Kennedy | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
| John Kerry | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
| Brian Kilmeade | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
| Mike Malloy | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
| Rupert Murdoch | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
| Bill O'Reilly | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
| Dan Rather | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
 | Ronald Reagan | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
| Condoleezza Rice | ... | Herself (archive footage) |
| Geraldo Rivera | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
 | Martin Sheen | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
| Shepard Smith | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
 | Jon Stewart | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
| Cal Thomas | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
| Greta Van Susteren | ... | Herself (archive footage) |
| Linda Vester | ... | Herself (archive footage) |
| Av Westin | ... | Himself |
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75 min | USA:78 min | Argentina:88 min (Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente)
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Certain Murdoch-owned newspapers in Australia refused to run ads for theatrical screenings of the film claiming that the ads were "offensive". The newspapers were not satisfied with the ads until they were pared down to the bare title of the film (without the tagline "Rupert Murdoch's War On Journalism"), the name of the theatre and the session time(s) with no accompanying artwork.
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Bill O'Reilly:
Shut up!
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References "The O'Reilly Factor" (1996)
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Layla
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Well if you go on the vote history you can tell who is a Fox fan or not -- almost all votes are 10 or 1. My vote was 8 -- the only one. That's what this work deserves because although it is very good it has flaws.
One problem with this movie is that it is based on the ringing message (paraphrased): For democracy to work you have to have a media that does its job based on journalistic principles and ethics.
Thing is, fans of Fox News could not care less about any of that. They want "their side" to win win win and to them Fox News is the ONLY outlet that made it possible to hear the "truth" over the tyranny of the "liberal media." They also what professional-wrestling style drama where the bad guy (Kerry, Kennedy, Clinton etc) is built up into some sort of super-monster (that is also cowardly and cheats all the time) which makes the victory all that much more sweeter.
So Fox delivers. Outfoxed shows how it works -- but the story is just as much "what went RIGHT at Fox News" as opposed to "what went WRONG with TV journalism." It is very satisfying to see documented what many of us have already known -- how Republican/White House talking points become injected into the zeitgeist with almost no resistance. From Fox to CNN to MSNBC, then from there into talk radio and mainstream media. When you hear a keyword like "flip flopper" repeated by a dozen different anchors/pundits in 1-second shots strung together it is really impressive.
Outfoxed is part of the backlash to Fox News and right-wing dominance of media. It will be interesting to see how far right-wingers will go to "debunk" this "propaganda." In any case it should be required viewing for all media consumers and most particularly all journalism and political science students. We'd be better off for it.