Outfoxed getting media attention despite Drudge/Murdoch threats ...

[annxburns]

...

check out the latest stories on Outfoxed, the expose of Fox News

http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&edition=us&ie=UTF-8&q=Outfoxed&scoring=d&start=0&sa=N

[NMDemDist2]

1. is it true it is downloadable tomorrow? n/t

[annxburns]

4. I don't know about the whole thing but you can download ...

... the clips here.


http://www.outfoxed.org


You can also get the DvD sent to you for a 10 spot.

[alarcojon]

8. I just got my copy

Very entertaining film. Lot's of our favorite media critics get air time (Brock, Alterman, McChesney, Jeff Cohen, Peter Hart, John Nichols, even Walter Cronkite) as well as several Fox ex-workers and three anonymous Fox workers. They show the O'Really/Jeremy Glick interview together with commentary from Glick and from Al Franken. They also mention the PIPA study which found that Fox viewers were the least informed about the Iraq war. Check it out if you can.

[DAGDA56]

2. Threats from Drudge? OOOO-h, I'm scared!

[wyethwire]

3. Censorship Controversy breeds publicity

Just like Al Franken, Richard Clarke, F-911, etc

when will they learn?

[sendero]

5. I hope ....

... never. I hope they fight it tooth and nail, nothing could be better!

[MORON]

6. Fox has been nominated for a World Stupidity Award!

http://stupidityawards.com/

[madfloridian]

7. Oh, good, Howard Dean to introduce the LA showing on July 19.

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5411788/site/newsweek/

SNIP..."Outfoxed: Howard Dean will introduce Greenwald's film, which accuses Fox News—despite polling numbers showing otherwise—of a right-wing bias."

I love this. He has said so much about them, and he gets to introduce the film at the LA premiere.

[alarcojon]

9. Interesting bit in Salon

It's not so much the fact that Fox News openly and sharply skews to the right, or, more accurately and more depressingly, that it parrots the Republican Party line. Unless you're just now getting cable or you live in Madagascar, that's not news. After all, there's something to be said for political frankness. I've always admired the way British newspapers wear their allegiances on their sleeves, and there's nothing duplicitous about it; all readers know that the Guardian favors the Labor Party and the Daily Telegraph supports the Conservatives, and they read those papers with appropriate ideological filters in place. I mean, hey, you're reading Salon right now; while we present a plurality of views and don't (I hope) march in lockstep with anyone, we make no pretense of political neutrality.

It's not even that Fox News commentators have suggested that John Kerry was the favored presidential candidate of the North Korean dictator. It's right there in "Outfoxed": An anchor on the morning show cheerily burbles, "Hey, got Barbra and Kim Jong Il on his side -- what could go wrong?" "Yeah," chirrups the bimbette on his left, "North Korea loves John Kerry!"

Nor is it that the network found a way to turn the question of whether Kerry looked and acted French into a quasi-legitimate news story that played for several days. (At one point they interviewed some appropriately tousled-looking French philosopher, who agreed that oui, M'sieur Kerry had the attitude and demeanor of a leisure-class Continental, rather than the hardworkin' Texas rootsiness of his fellow Yale man, George W. Bush.)

When you watch Greenwald's barrage of pirated Fox News footage -- his filmmaking techniques are clearly testing the outer limits of the "fair use" doctrine, and may yet land him in court -- it's an overwhelming experience well beyond the hoot-inducing moments. Uprooted from the happy everyday babble of cable TV, the network looks more and more like a total propaganda system: Murdoch and his drones have created a dense and sophisticated weave of sound and image, drenched in the American flag and overloaded with authoritative-seeming info nuggets, whose exclusive goal is the dissemination of fear, confusion and disinformation designed to serve the ends of the governing regime.

http://salon.com/ent/indie/2004/07/13/outfoxed/index.html

[fearnobush]

10. I really hope this turns in to a media whore war, FOX calling the NYT's

Queer, MSNBC saying fox is for parrots, FOX calling CNN the Clinton News Network, CNN calling fox the Wrong source for news, etc, etc. Then soon enough the public gets to learn that they are all Media Whores and demand a real news network thats not tied to cor(whore)porate right wing aganda.

Just a dream.

[Ganja Ninja]

11. At least maybe it will reverse the RW trend the press has ...

been on for the last 30 years. Ever since the end of Nixon they've been giving the con's a pass.