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...People will tell you that final clubs are only interested in your money, which is true, but sometimes you can fool them. The Fox??s treasury is mostly Monopoly money and UPC symbols from cereal boxes. (This is why the official Fox tie features Cap’n Crunch...
...they didn’t write the same stories. The headline on CNN.com read, “Bush: US Won’t Abandon Iraqi People.” Fox News chose the simpler: “Allawi: Thank You America.” Judging only from the headlines, Fox??s pro-Iraq war, conservative stance comes through loud and clear. The articles also highlight different aspects of the speech, with Fox focusing on Allawi’s gratefulness to America where CNN notes that the speech was made against a backdrop of growing violence and hostage-taking...
Unfortunately, Outfoxed is not that film. Robert Greenwald’s low-budget documentary, co-sponsored by liberal advocacy groups MoveOn.org and the Center for American Progress, is short, sloppy, occasionally impactful and frequently superfluous. It presents a convincing compilation of damning footage and expert testimony demonstrating Fox??s myriad violations of journalistic ethics, but a key ingredient remains missing. Cinema must be engaging; it must be attractive. Greenwald falls flat on both counts...
Greenwald also interviews a kennel of liberal media watchdogs, but does not include, say, Columbia Graduate School of Journalism Dean Nicholas B. Lemann ’76 (also a former Crimson president), who has offered a more tempered view of Fox??s problems. How are slanted statistics and experts like these any different from those used on “The O’Reilly Factor?...
Beyond its surface flaws, does Outfoxed harbor an important message? Yes. Fox??s news coverage is rife with fearmongering, mistruths and rampant partisanship. The most powerful sequence of the film is Bill O’Reilly’s on-air interview with Jeremy Glick, the son of a Sept. 11 victim. Glick attempted to explain his opposition to Bush’s post-attack foreign policy; an enraged O’Reilly interrupted and browbeat his guest, even asserting that his father “would not approve of this.” Later...