Fox News: UNfair & UNbalanced

Fox News is clearly a propaganda machine for the radical conservative agenda, but it continues to use the slogan "Fair & Balanced." Finally, Fox News is being challenged.

Featuring "interviews with former Fox employees and leaked policy memos written by Fox executives," the film "Outfoxed" is "an obsessively researched expose" by Hollywood director Robert Greenwald, who shows how the network "distorts its coverage to serve the conservative political agenda of its owner, the media tycoon Rupert Murdoch."

In one scene, Fox News's chief White House reporter Carl Cameron is shown hamming it up with President Bush, telling the president that his wife was campaigning for the Bush-Cheney ticket.

As LA Times columnist Tim Rutten wrote, Fox has become "the most blatantly biased major American news organization since the era of yellow journalism." The movie highlights a trend whereby the broader right-wing media is parroting the conservative line on everything from the war to the economy to coverage of the presidential campaign – leaving facts and objectivity by the wayside.

"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.

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 Walter Cronkite, Jeff Cohen (FAIR) Bob McChesney (Free Press), Chellie Pingree (Common Cause), Jeff Chester (Center for Digital Democracy) and David Brock (Media Matters) provide context and guidance for the story of Fox News and its effect on society.

This documentary also 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."



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