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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0826262000592
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Label: The Disinformation Company
Manufacturer: The Disinformation Company
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: The Disinformation Company
Release Date: July 13, 2004
Running Time: 114 minutes
Sales Rank: 19164
Studio: The Disinformation Company
Theatrical Release Date: 2004
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'Fair and balanced'??? How about anything BUT?!?! For the first time ever, this documentary reveals the secrets of Former Fox news producers, reporters, bookers and writers who expose what it's like to work for Fox News. These former Fox employees talk about how they were forced to push a 'right-wing' point of view or risk their jobs. Some have even chosen to remain anonymous in order to protect their current livelihoods. As one employee said 'There's no sense of integrity as far as having a line that can't be crossed.'
'Outfoxed' examines how media empires, led by Rupert Murdoch's Fox News, have been running a 'race to the bottom' in television news. This film provides an in-depth look at Fox News and the dangers of ever-enlarging corporations taking control of the public's right to know.
'Outfoxed' first examines media mogul Rupert Murdoch and the Australian company, News Corp., tracing how the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) helped Murdoch break the rules to establish a fourth network in the United States. The film explores Murdoch's burgeoning kingdom and the impact on society when a broad swath of media is controlled by one person.
Media experts, including Jeff Cohen (FAIR), Bob McChesney and Chellie Pingree, provide context and guidance for the story of Fox News and its effect on society.
The team behind 'Outfoxed' created a system to monitor Fox News 24 hours a day for months to discover exactly how its shows worked. A team of volunteers around the country scrutinized every hour of Fox News programming, noting examples of bias in its coverage. The result is an intense examination of Fox News and the lie inherent in its favorite motto: 'Fair and Balanced.'
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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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Rating:  - Fox News is Run of the Mill Now!
For all the complaints about Fox News, the other networks have become just as bad in promoting the left as Fox promoted the right. This is where is all began, but it has expanded and grown. CNN and MSNBC have the same busy screens, arguing people without real conversation and information and stereotypes being promoted rather than real news. I think Fox started it but it has now progressed. Newspapers often depended on subscriptions for financial profit, now with most reading on the Internet, advertising is more important. Ratings and advertising rates are the profit basis for televison along with cable subscription rates. That means that corportations have less dependece on the public and more on companies. Over all journalism has been massively hurt and there doesn't seem to be an alternative.
Rating: - Propaganda 101
The DVD is very instructive on the most basic technique of propaganda, the repetition ad nauseum of a specific idea. The effect is stunning as the movie makers piece together a string of news clips, stretching across a period of time, with near identical messages, in many cases word for word. The readers and analysts who populate the Fox newsroom all look as if they walked off the pages of the National Enquirer, but they do have a role to play and they play it very well. They very often repeat lines, from newscast to newscast, verbatim even in different contexts such as "newscasts", interviews, opinion segments, and so on.
It's no secret that this simple technique has a very pronounced effect on the impression people have of what's important and what is not. J. A. C. Brown wrote about this in the 1950s in his Techniques of Persuasion when the memory of Nazi Germany and its use of the big lie was still fresh. As Outfoxed shows clearly, the network has these techniques down cold.
Rating: - Confirms what your intuition already knows about Fox.
This movie puts facts and observations, both by involved former employees, television experts, and through displaying trends that Fox quite obviously uses, to show how Fox's "news" is nothing more than an aggressive, perpetual editorial, almost entirely devoid of fact or objectivity. It makes what was already seemingly awful worse, depicting the calculated nature of it all. It gives those of us who suspected more reason to realize the changes that so many seem to want in this country. Bush politics as practiced through the news.
It includes demonstrations of pivotal media players for Fox, (i.e. Bill O'Reilly) who deliberately push a very specific presentation of their "view" of the issues. Aiming, if not to convince any one of their beliefs, to profoundly confuse the issue and obscure any information that might jeopardize their agenda's success.
It also gives some hope that we are finally seeing the truth spoken again in media, even if they had to do it (at the time this was made) through documentary.
Rating: - Truth Will Be Told!!!!
Here is a perfect example of why Fox News should be taken off the air ASAP. After seeing this great documentary that exposes the almost Nazi style of controling what they report and making up the news, I hope that some hacker sends this DVD to the network so the only thing that gets shown is this masterpiece.
Rating: - Fox News: Bull, Extra Bull and More Bull.
Outfoxed really hits the spot when it comes to exposing the corruption at Fox News. As has been pointed out by some of the other viewers, nearly all of the media in the United States is biased, lazy and scandalous. Even most small town newspapers are owned by conglomerates from far away big cities.
Outfoxed shows not only how bad Fox News itself is, but also how the creation of Fox News took a bad situation and made it many times worse. Calling it "The Fox Effect", other station staffers tell how they have noticed changes at their stations based on things Fox News has done and why those changes are bad for the American public. Outfoxed is chock full of people current and former Fox staffers who went on the record to tell the story of how their employer makes them lie for the cameras.
Outfoxed shows exactly how Fox News gives the not-often used, journalism insider term "Managed News" a whole new meaning. This DVD comes highly recommended.
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