Guest web_norah Posted July 13 Report Share Posted July 13 NEW YORK - A new documentary backed by liberal political groups aims to document that the Fox News Channel is anything but "fair and balanced," despite the cable-news network's motto.The film, "Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism," draws on clips compiled during weeks of round-the-clock taping of the network to demonstrate what the filmmakers believe is a pattern of right-wing bias and support for the Republican agenda."What we found is not that Fox is a conservative network, but that it's a network that follows the party line of the Bush administration," said "Outfoxed" filmmaker Robert Greenwald, a Hollywood producer-director whose credits include the 2003 documentary "Uncovered: The Whole Truth About the Iraq (news - web sites) War" and such TV films as "The Crooked E: The Unshredded Truth about Enron" and "Blonde," a biopic of Marilyn Monroe.Greenwald said he decided to make the film after hearing numerous journalists refer to the "Foxification" of the news. That approach, he says, has served the 8-year-old Fox News Channel well, and "put pressure on many of the other networks to move in the same direction: cheap news, ranting and raving, pseudo-patriotism."Greenwald's 75-minute film includes complaints from several Fox News staffers about the workplace climate at the outlet of the global Murdoch media empire. They say their bosses promote a conservative slant."We weren't necessarily, as it was told to us, a newsgathering organization so much as we were a proponent of a point of view," says Jon Du Pre, a former Fox News correspondent.The film also quotes internal memos from a top network executive that seem to call for pro-Bush coverage. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=493&ncid=762&e=6&u=/ap/20040713/ap_en_mo/tv_outfoxed_documentary Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest CowboyTrance Posted August 3 Report Share Posted August 3 I watched this one over the weekend, and I'm glad I did. It was a well done piece of work. Don't get me wrong, it made my blood boil, but it was something I'm happy to have seen. Just when you think you couldn't be any more disenchanted with the news media...oy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest web_norah Posted August 3 Report Share Posted August 3 i dont believe everything i read on print these days Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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