| Posted by: chinton at August 16, 2004, 9:59 pm | | Topic: Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism (0/10) Forum: JoBlo | | Loved Farenheit but thanks for saving my time instead of wasting mine on this film you guys. Although that was a t ruly idiotic statement O'Reily said but then again I consider him a jackass. Besides I thought it was common knowledge that Fox News is slanted to the Right. big surprise | | Static Link |
| Posted by: Fisting Ackbar at August 15, 2004, 1:30 pm | | Topic: Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism (0/10) Forum: JoBlo | | Quote: Originally Posted by HannibalGuy Another example of why this film is propaganda is the fact that the director accuses the Fox News anchors of taking marching orders, and memos of how to report the news and slant it beeing on the anchors desks right before a brodcast. Sure, FNC has a daily breefing, but EVERY network does! Agreed, that was my main peeve with the movie as well. I don't watch Fox news so I can't debunk everything that was said about it, but the movie was guilty of the same partisan tactics that it accused FNC of. For the record, I'm one of the guys who liked FAHRENHEIT 9/11, but found this to be a rather mediocre documentary. 5/10 | | Static Link |
| Posted by: HannibalGuy at August 10, 2004, 6:53 pm | | Topic: Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism (0/10) Forum: JoBlo | | I've already posted my feeling on Fox News in the TV forum, now I will review this movie. This should have been a companion film for Fahrenheit 9/11, because this piece of shit is just like it. If the films director Robert Greenwald wanted to prove something, the only thing he prooved is that he is a big asshole. For those who don't know, this "documentary" is an attempt to expose the Fox News Channel. This film is NOTHING but cut and paste propaganda. How is it cut and paste? Well, first off, the film just shows brief clips of FNC that is supossed to make the network look bad. The problem with that is that the director cuts the clips too short and dosent even show what the issue the people in the clip were discussing! Example (this is the example I posted in the TV forum): the film has a segment of clips just showing Bill O'Reilly telling people to shut up, like that's all he tells his guests to do. In one of the clips, O'Reilly is talking to a young gay student who was in serious trouble for outi... | | Read Entire Entry |
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